Description
These poems are shadowed by illness, both civic and personal, and by the mysterious currents of grief. What emerges over the course of the volume is a meditation not only on a daughter's relationship with her mother but also on a citizen's to her nation. Throughout, Once examines the forces that shape war, divorce, and death, exploring personal culpability and charting uncertain new beginnings as the speakers seek to build homes in a shattered land and find whole selves amid broken, thwarted relationships.
from "Frontier"
. . . At times,
I felt sick, intoxicated
by BPA and mercury.
At other times I fasted and the stars
stumbled clear from the vault.
Up there, the universe stands around drunk.
I hope the Lord is kind to us,
for we engrave our every mistake . . .
Author: Meghan O'Rourke
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 03/01/2013
Pages: 92
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.30d
ISBN13: 9780393343946
ISBN10: 0393343944
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General