Born out of fragments of breakages made by leavings off, such as occurs in immigration and other traumatic experiences, the IPPY Award-winning essays of Dead Meander investigate how things can be made whole, or more whole, in the time following such leavings, transitions and traumas.
Praise for Dead Meander
“The hypnotic, original structure of Adria Bernardi’s poetic prose, as it sends out associative tributaries (“meanders”), finding language for extreme states, explores and extends the forms and rituals of elegy. Hers is an astonishing, at times excruciating awareness, capable of brilliantly evoking what consciousness endures when the body—whether one’s own, a child’s, or the body politic—is under assault.”— Eleanor Wilner
Dead Meander (March 2013), is a winner of a 2014 IPPY Bronze Medal Award for creative non-fiction.