Asymmetry
Brandl & Schlesinger, $24.95 pb, 71 pp, 9781921556319
Poetry
Asymmetry by Aidan Coleman
by Mike Ladd •
In July 2007, at the age of thirty-one, Aidan Coleman suffered a stroke as a result of a brain tumour. Asymmetry is a book in two parts. The first details the poet’s survival after this near-death experience, his struggle to regain full use of his body and to speak and write again. The second part is a group of love poems for his wife, Leana.
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