The Uses of Sorrow

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The Uses of Sorrow

(in my sleep i dreamed this poem )

Someone I loved once gave me 

A box full of darkness

It took me years to understand,

That this, too, was a gift.

—Mary Oliver

Oliver's poem is an apt description of the 2019 dark and brooding memoir by Adrienne Brodeur, Wild Game; My Mother, Her Lover, and Me, reviewed by Book Mole, Larry Bowlden.

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