This collection of poems is a journey of introspection of one life, of its loves, joys, traumas, and the indominable will to carry on.
The loss of a parent cuts deep into the soul. In early June 2020, Adanna Moriarty learned of her father’s advanced cancer diagnosis. Reaching out to a friend who recently lost her father, she told Adanna to write on every scrap of paper, day and night. Adanna’s thoughts flowed onto pages and sheets filled with stories of her time with a divorced father who lived most of her life thousands of miles away. With his sudden death in less than two months, Adanna channeled her anguish in an attempt to understand what she lived through and her whole life from childhood to motherhood and wife, and now fatherless.
Threadbare manifests memories of an idyllic childhood in Upstate New York, a tween in Wyoming, a teen runaway in the desert, to a young woman finding love, becoming a mother, divorce, and then uniting with the real love of her life. Adanna cracks open her innermost defenses and lays bare the raw emotions and wonderment of a young child, a rebellious youth, and woman dealing with finding her identity through work. The book is published by Curious Corvid Publishing and available January 15. Adanna is Membership Chair of WPN.
