AlvernoINK Spring / Fall 2017 | Page 106

This poem comes out of a Center for Academic Excellence research grant last summer with Sebastian Melmoth on the topics of Bibliotherapy and literary trauma studies. I like the way it summarizes our research in stages leading to the final liberating and cathartic lines and nod to my favorite writer and (imagined) friend Marcel Proust!

Jon Little

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