Shiver!

Shiver!
The never-ending search for identity

This collection of poetry evokes a journey of self-discovery through a hostile Arctic landscape. The author navigates a stormy night where sleet, winds, rain and snow create a frigid and oppressive atmosphere.

Amid icebergs colliding with a jarring clatter, she pursues a disillusioned quest for tranquility and spiritual purity.

The Arctic wilderness symbolizes the isolation necessary for introspection and personal rebirth. The Arctic landscape thus becomes a mirror of the poet’s inner world as she searches for meaning.

The text symbolizes a difficult journey of self-discovery, where polar darkness represents inner obstacles. Despite the hostile setting and polar blindness, the poet seeks enlightenment and serenity. This quest leads to a revelation: the northern light that awakens deep within her being.

Shiver! thus embodies the culmination of a long poetic quest in which suffering and spiritual cold transform into inner enlightenment. The Arctic journey here becomes a metaphor for personal rebirth and self-discovery.

About the author :

Mousseline de Mers, originally from Amos, holds degrees in French Literature and Special Education.

She is the mother of two sons and also a grandmother.

An LGBTQ+ activist and speaker, she has published the poetry collections Frisson and Métamorphose with Les Éditions de l’étoile de mer and has contributed to some fifteen poetry and short story anthologies published by L’arc-en-ciel littéraire.