All that divides us : poems / / by Elinor Benedict
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| Autore: |
Benedict Elinor <1931->
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| Titolo: |
All that divides us : poems / / by Elinor Benedict
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| Pubblicazione: | Logan : , : Utah State University Press, , 2000 |
| ©2000 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (80 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina: | 811/.54 |
| Soggetto topico: | American poetry |
| Soggetto geografico: | China Poetry |
| Persona (resp. second.): | KuminMaxine |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents -- Foreword -- 1. Begin the Ceremony -- 2. Strangers and Kin -- 3. In the Company of Magpies -- 4. Looking for Grace -- acknowledgements -- about the author -- about the May Swenson Poetry Award. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Although the poems in this collection are not narrative, they do present a narrative, gradually unspooling the tale of the poet's rebel aunt, who left the family ""to marry a Chinaman"" in the 1930s. It's an old story, full of poignancy, mystery, family pride, and doubt. When the aunt returns to die, the poet, now grown, discovers in herself the need to reclaim the connections that her family had severed. She travels to China several times-to learn. Gradually, through wide-eyed insightful poems, we see the poet rebuild with her Chinese cousins a sense of generation, family, and humanity-b |
| Titolo autorizzato: | All That Divides Us |
| ISBN: | 1-283-26680-6 |
| 9786613266804 | |
| 0-87421-333-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996199278603316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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Serie:
May Swenson Poetry Award series.