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Roam (Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry)
Susan B.A. Somers-Willett
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Description for Roam (Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry)
Paperback. Explores the loss of a parent to cancer and the resulting uprootedness that loss can create. In searching for a sense of home and belonging, this collection of free verse looks both inward and outward, to landscapes rural and urban, and speaks in haunting and musical lyrics. Series Editor(s): Tribble, Jon. Series: Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 172.
Roam explores the loss of a parent to cancer and the resulting uprootedness that loss can create. In searching for a sense of home and belonging, this collection of free verse looks both inward and outward, to landscapes rural and urban, and speaks in haunting and musical lyrics. Unexpected voices emerge from history and myth - those of Joan of Arc, Ophelia, Circe, Daedalus and Icarus, and Achilles' mother, Thetis - and mingle with the author's own voice. From the naming of the first woman, Eve, to the naming of the first European child born in the Americas, Virginia Dare, ... Read more
Roam explores the loss of a parent to cancer and the resulting uprootedness that loss can create. In searching for a sense of home and belonging, this collection of free verse looks both inward and outward, to landscapes rural and urban, and speaks in haunting and musical lyrics. Unexpected voices emerge from history and myth - those of Joan of Arc, Ophelia, Circe, Daedalus and Icarus, and Achilles' mother, Thetis - and mingle with the author's own voice. From the naming of the first woman, Eve, to the naming of the first European child born in the Americas, Virginia Dare, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Series
Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809326907
SKU
V9780809326907
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About Susan B.A. Somers-Willett
Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett teaches at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities. Her poems have appeared in The Madison Review, Beloit Poetry Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Cream City Review, and Hayden's Ferry Review. In 2005 she was selected as the winner of the Ann Stanford Poetry Prize.
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