Water Between Us, The (Paperback)

Shara McCallum is the eighteenth winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, one of the nation's most prestigious awards for a first book of poetry.

The Water Between Us is a poetic examination of cultural fragmentation, and the exile's struggle to reconcile the disparate and often conflicting influences of the homeland and the adopted country. The book also centers on other kinds of physical and emotional distances: those between mothers and daughters, those created by being of mixed racial descent, and those between colonizers and the colonized. Despite these distances, or perhaps Because of them, the poems affirm the need for a multilayered and cohesive sense of self. McCallum's language is precise and graceful. Drawing from Anancy tales, Greek myth, and biblical stories, the poems deftly alternate between American English and Jamaican patois, and between images both familiar and surreal.

General

Imprint:	University of Pittsburgh Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Pitt Poetry Series
Release date:	September 1999
First published:	September 1999
Authors:	Shara McCallum
Dimensions:	230 x 150 x 7mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	96
ISBN-13:	978-0-8229-5710-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	0-8229-5710-8
Barcode:	9780822957102

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