Roam (Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry)
ISBN-13:
9780809326907
ISBN-10:
0809326906
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Susan B. A. Somers-Willett
Publication date:
2006
Publisher:
Southern Illinois University Press
Format:
Paperback
96 pages
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Book details
ISBN-13:
9780809326907
ISBN-10:
0809326906
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Susan B. A. Somers-Willett
Publication date:
2006
Publisher:
Southern Illinois University Press
Format:
Paperback
96 pages
Summary
Roam (Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry) (ISBN-13: 9780809326907 and ISBN-10: 0809326906), written by authors
Susan B. A. Somers-Willett, was published by Southern Illinois University Press in 2006.
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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, these characters seek full houses and, instead, discover empty ones. In a voice that is southern, feminist, and unflinching in its assessments of the self, Susan B. A. Somers-Willett treats personal loss without ceremony or nostalgia. The poems of Roam look homeward while acknowledging that one can never return to such elusive comforts. Her lyrics reveal the dangers and delights of an ever-changing, ever-traveling sense of self.
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