Annabella of Ely: Poems I-LXVII

Annabella of Ely: Poems I-LXVII

Long thought to have been inadvertently thrown on her funeral pyre, this recently discovered text tells the story of Annabella of Elyâ€™s spiritual transformation. In a series of seventy-seven short, distinctive poems, Annabella describes the heights and deep abysses of her mystical journey, one marked by suffering, bliss, and most importantly, Love.
â€œAnnabella of Ely is a miracle. She takes me aside from the multitude. She places her fingers in my ears. She spits and touches my tongue. She looks up to heaven and sighs. She says, â€˜be opened.â€™â€ â€“ Nicola Masciandaro
â€œThese endeared utterances invoke the poetic abyss of Hadewijch, of Mechthild of Magdeburg, of Lydwina of Schiedam, of a distant and necrophiliac mysticism stumbling higher and higher, ensuring the oblivion of its author.â€ ~ Rasu-Yong Tugen, Baroness de Tristeombre, author of Songs From The Black Moon
â€œWhile little is known of Annabella of Ely, the poetic fragments hereinâ€”documenting her physical decline and spiritual ascentâ€”bear the same elements of marked religiosity, mysticism, histrionic behaviour, and annihilative bliss we find in hagiographical accounts of Lydwina of Schiedam. But in the absence of a comparative oeuvre (Lydwina wasnâ€™t partial to poetic experiment), the verses themselvesâ€”both in their bewildering brevity and in the stylistic decisiveness with which they â€˜chimeâ€™ out of a state of extreme anguishâ€”evoke those of another figure, who, in the summer of 1944, was oscillating between convalescence and vigor: Georges Bataille. In Annabellaâ€™s feverous writing, in the visceral manner she maps her self-naughting, and in the poetic invectives that quite literally spew from her lips, we are reminded of that life lived at the limit of the impossible: â€˜sickness the death of the world / I am the sickness / I am the death of the world.â€™â€ â€“ Edia Connole
Country USA
Brand Gnome
Manufacturer Gnome
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780692709573
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Gnome
Manufacturer	Gnome
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780692709573
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Annabella of Ely: Poems I-LXVII

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