The Analyst
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In her latest collection Molly Peacock, one of Canada's most beloved poets, tells the story of her longtime psychoanalyst who returned to painting after surviving a stroke. By translating techniques of visual art into language, The Analyst guides us through breathtaking settings and portraiture, searching for authenticity behind tapestries of illusion.
About this Author
Molly Peacock is an acclaimed poet, essayist and creative nonfiction writer.
Reviews
Praise for Molly Peacock and The Analyst
"Whatever the subject, rich music follows the tap of Molly Peacock's baton."--Washington Post
"Using lush language and imagery...Peacock explores 'the burnt edge of memory' as she highlights how life changes yet moves forward...[The Analyst is] a rich and important selection."--Library Journal
"This collection is a welcome green in our clearcut time. Its poems unfurl botanically, precisely as they should, and invite us to consider how essential healing is to our progress. Here are two women in a crucial exchange, taking their turns to listen and to learn. There is an honouring afoot in this work that I've learned from, a bowing and a thanks that are given withthegrace and humility MollyPeacock's poetry can make sing. Whether it'stheradical company of visual art or poetry, here is how art abides while we persist and find our way."--Sue Goyette
"Peacock brings us into the consulting room with her [facing the analyst] ...not as a patient but as one person to another. That move enables us to accept neutrally, as would a therapist, whatever comes to mind, to pull up a chair, 'listen, question, watch things heal.'"--O, The Oprah Magazine
"There's a spellbinding intimacy here, between analyst and patient, the two women characters, and, most importantly, between poet and reader. A compelling examination of how much we depend on others, especially when it comes to 'seeing' ourselves through someone else's eyes. Needless to say, the real subject is love."--Philip Schultz
"Guided to 'listen, question, and watch things heal,' I felt both the sting of recognition and the balm of comfort in these honest, graceful poems."--Rachel Zucker
"Psychoanalysis has always been of a piece with the various languages of literature--a kind of practical poetry--taking its life, as theory and practice, from a larger world of words. A session lasts 50 minutes, [and it's] always at the same time each week, the way a sonnet is 14 lines. As Molly Peacock superbly demonstrates inThe Analyst, the form makes possible the articulation."--Adam Phillips
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