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Autore |
Somers-Willett Susan B. A. <1973-> |
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Titolo |
Roam [[electronic resource] /] / Susan B.A. Somers-Willett |
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Carbondale, : Crab Orchard Review, : Southern Illinois University Press, [2006] |
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ISBN |
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0-8093-8818-9 |
1-299-05073-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (94 p.) |
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Collana |
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Crab Orchard series in poetry : open competition award |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Travel |
Thought and thinking |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; One; Self-Portrait as Interstate 10; Girl, 7, Seeking U.S. Flight Record, Dies in Crash; September in Ohio; A Pain, a Fencepost, a Black-and-White Film; Virginia Dare (i); Where He Lives Rhymes with Rome; Virginia Dare (ii); The Naming of Eve; Heat; Matins; Virginia Dare (iii); Dedications for a Birmingham Clinic; Two Places Where Danger Lives; Virginia Dare (iv); Stella Stella; What the Doctors Forget to Tell You about Morphine; Two; Migration; What's Left; The Gift; Virginia Dare (v); The Boy Who Would Be Achilles |
Amanita virosaNotes for Living in NOLA; Ophelia's Technicolor G-String: An Urban Mythology; Who What When; In Memory of a Girl; A Note on the Type; Virginia Dare (vi); Cowboys and Indians; The Effects of Light on a Woman's Body; The Boxer's Wife; Circus Acts; Circe with Her Hair Down; nyctota (Emptiness); After Leaving the House of Minos; Three; Jeanne's Memory; Jeanne Crosses; Jeanne Sleeping; Jeanne in the Country of Lost Things; Jeanne in the Presence of Instruments; Notes; Other Books in the Crab Orchar Series in Poetry; Back Cover |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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, thes |
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