Pinion: An Elegy - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Claudia EmersonSeries:Southern Messenger PoetsPublish date:2002-02-01Pages:55
Language:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807127667ISBN-10:807127663UPC:9780807127667Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:8.96 x 5.56 x 0.20 inchesWeight:0.2205Product ID:SCX70VJ8M2
In this eloquent long poem, Claudia Emerson employs the voices of two family members on a small southern farm to examine the universal complexities of place, generation, memory, and identity. Alternating between the voices of Preacher and Sister, Pinion is narrated by the younger, surviving sister, Rose, in whose memory the now-gone family and farm vividly live on: "In the dream that recurs, like...
Language:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807127667ISBN-10:807127663UPC:9780807127667Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:8.96 x 5.56 x 0.20 inchesWeight:0.2205Product ID:SCX70VJ8M2
Claudia Emersonis also the author of the poetry collection Pharaoh, Pharaoh. Assistant professor of English at Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia, she has been a recipient of artist fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia Commonwealth Commission for the Arts. Her poems have appeared in Southern Review, Georgia Review, TriQuarterly, Crazyhorse, and...
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