Cover of "The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart" poetry book by Persea Books, featuring a colorful artistic design on the front.
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Cover of "The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart" poetry book by Persea Books, featuring a colorful artistic design on the front.

The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart: Poems

Persea Books
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$17.00

Description

Whether in the title poem, spoken by those who lived longingly and vicariously through the famous missing aviator, or in Circus Fire, 1944, which intimately recounts a haunting New England tragedy, Gabrielle Calvocoressi uses her prodigious gifts of imagination and empathy to give voice to the hope and heartbreak of small-town America. In painstaking, vernacular verse, she conveys the ambitions and failings of a distraught populacein the edgy jazz portrait, Suite Billy Strayhorn, for example, or the enthralling, interwoven sequence, At the Adult Drive-In, which conveys, at once, a personal and communal corruption. Penetrating and compassionate, The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart portrays, with a storyteller's arc, the troubled landscape of the left-behind.

Author: Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Publisher: Persea Books
Published: 04/25/2005
Pages: 68
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 8.26h x 5.58w x 0.24d
ISBN13: 9780892553150
ISBN10: 0892553154
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General