Take Heart

By Molly Peacock

Book Overview

Poems deal with emotions, parents, alcoholism, dreams, money, travel, burdens, nature, human sexuality, and religion This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679721967
• ISBN13: 9780679721963
• Release Date: April 1989
• Publisher: Vintage Books USA
• Length: 71 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Take Heart

For every alcoholic family, or anyone wanting to know what it is like to grow up in one, Peacock clearly defines the shame, guilt, terror, uncertainty, manipulation, oppression, emptiness, denial, hurt and fear she has experienced. Take Heart chronicles her years from childhood into early adulthood. Peacock endures abuse, death, ridicule, abortion, and abandonment - but she asks no pity, makes no excuses; and yet the reader longs to reach into the pages, reach back into time and whisk that little girl away from all the ugly sorrow that surrounds her. Pick her up, hug her; give her hope, love her. Save her? She must continue on her journey to becoming real, just as the Velveteen Rabbit did - all shabby, and the pink rubbed off his nose. Someone will love you, and you will become real. Your cavernous heart will be filled, and not with the hard minerals of rock, but with the soft flesh of a ripe tomato. Fragile! It must be handled with care, for to bruise it too much will cause it to rot.