Roam (Paperback)

"Roam" explores the loss of a parent to cancer and the resulting uprootedness that loss can create. In searching for a sense of home and belonging, this collection of free verse looks both inward and outward, to landscapes rural and urban, and speaks in haunting and musical lyrics. Unexpected voices emerge from history and myth--those of Joan of Arc, Ophelia, Circe, Daedalus and Icarus, and Achilles' mother, Thetis--and mingle with the author's own voice. From the naming of the first woman, Eve, to the naming of the first European child born in the Americas, Virginia Dare, these characters seek full houses and, instead, discover empty ones. In a voice that is southern, feminist, and unflinching in its assessments of the self, Susan B. A. Somers-Willett treats personal loss without ceremony or nostalgia. The poems of "Roam "look homeward while acknowledging that one can never return to such elusive comforts. Her lyrics reveal the dangers and delights of an ever-changing, ever-traveling sense of self.

General

Imprint:	Southern Illinois University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry
Release date:	February 2006
First published:	February 2006
Authors:	Susan B. A. Somers-Willett
Series editors:	Jon Tribble
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	96
ISBN-13:	978-0-8093-2690-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	0-8093-2690-6
Barcode:	9780809326907

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