Landlock X: Poems - Paperback
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Award-Finalist Poetry Collection Exploring Adoption and Identity
Finalist in the 2023 Big Other Book Award for Poetry
Sarah Audsley's debut poetry collection, Landlock X, joins a growing body of adoptee poetics. By examining the consequences of the international transracial adoptee experience--her own--Audsley's collection finds more questions than solid answers. Employing a variety of poetic forms, co-opting the pastoral tradition to argue for belonging to the rural landscape--despite the inheritance of displacement and removal from a country of origin--Landlock X tries to solve for all of the (adoptee's) variables and knows it is an impossible task that the "I", "you", and "we" of the poems only approximate.
What Makes This Poetry Collection Unique
This debut collection bridges the gap between adoptee literature and pastoral poetry, examining how a Korean American adoptee raised in rural Vermont negotiates belonging to a landscape while carrying the weight of displacement. The poems grapple with loss, grief, and the search for identity when origin stories remain incomplete.
Audsley uses varied poetic forms to explore these complex themes, creating a collection that speaks to both personal experience and universal questions of identity and belonging.
From the Collection
From "The Black Cows in the Foreground"
it is unknown
where the bones
of your mother
turned to fragments
none in the painting
of the black cows
so where to grieve
her body
no parcel of land
to plant sorrow
in furrowed rows
the black cows graze
About Sarah Audsley
SARAH AUDSLEY, a Korean American adoptee raised in rural Vermont, has received support from The Rona Jaffe Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, Banff Centre's Writing Studio, and a Creation Grant from the Vermont Arts Council. Her work appears in New England Review, The Cortland Review, Four Way Review, The Massachusetts Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Pleiades, and elsewhere. A graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and a member of The Starlings Collective, she lives and works in Johnson, VT.
Product Details
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Texas Review Press
- Publication Date: February 2023
- Award: Finalist in 2023 Big Other Book Award for Poetry
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