Description
Lo maps the deprivation and richness of a rural girlhood and offers an intimate portrait of the woman--tender, hungry, hopeful--who manages to emerge. In a series of lyric odes and elegies, Lo explores the notion that we can be partially constituted by lack--poverty, neglect, isolation. The child in the book's early sections is beloved and lonely, cherished and abused, lucky and imperiled, and by leaning into this complexity the poems render a tentative and shimmering space sometimes occluded, the space occupied by a girl coming to find herself and the world beautiful, even as that world harms her.
Author: Melissa Crowe
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 05/24/2023
Pages: 88
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.15lbs
Size: 8.82h x 5.83w x 0.32d
ISBN13: 9781609388997
ISBN10: 1609388992
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
Author: Melissa Crowe
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 05/24/2023
Pages: 88
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.15lbs
Size: 8.82h x 5.83w x 0.32d
ISBN13: 9781609388997
ISBN10: 1609388992
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
About the Author
Melissa Crowe is author of Dear Terror, Dear Splendor. She coordinates the MFA program in creative writing at UNCW, where she teaches poetry and publishing. She lives in Wilmington, North Carolina.