America That Island Off the Coast of France

Poetry. Women's Studies. AMERICA THAT ISLAND OFF THE COAST OF FRANCE speaks to the impossibility of emigration, of ever being the citizen of only one country. Born in France, raised in Florida, Kercheval now divides her time between the U.S. and Uruguay. The poems hurtle across literary and linguistic borders toward a lyricism that slows down experience to create a new form of elegiac memoir. Against the backdrops of Paris, Montevideo, and Florida, the poems explore citizenship and homelessness, motherhood and self, family and freedom, turning over and over again the very meaning of the word home, as the poems, like the poet, make the fraught journey back and forth between America and France. As Kercheval wonders in her poem The Red Balloon, is leaving / ever painless? Is returning?

Author: Jesse Lee Kercheval
Publisher: Tupelo Press
Published: 09/01/2019
Pages: 92
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.22d
ISBN13: 9781946482242
ISBN10: 1946482242
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Women Authors
- Poetry | Caribbean & Latin American
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs