Hotel Raphael | Paperback

Hotel Raphael | Paperback Description

Hotel Raphael, Rachael Boast&s fourth poetry collection, draws on the biblical figure of Job as it charts a journey through heat, drought and pain, describing not only the reality of chronic illness, but living with it in a time of global crisis. Hotel Raphael addresses Job&s terrible forbearance: how much suffering can we take, and what can we realistically change? While we fight to relieve our own pain, fix the planet&s ecological imbalance and right its terrible injustices, we must also find a way through. Boast shows us the places where we can take refuge along the way. Raphael is the patron saint of travelers and pilgrims: his hotel is a place of rest and healing. We also pass through the balm of landscape, especially that of Dartmoor, and brush against the world of Jean Cocteau&s Orphée and his angels, who broadcast to us from the Other Side. Hotel Raphael sees Boast, our only true English Symbolist, describe a moving and vivid journey & and make an extraordinary travelling song, one that shows us how to bear our pain without trying to erase its source.