Shara McCallum

The Face of Water

New and Selected Poems

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Since the publication of her first collection, The Water Between Us, Shara McCallum has steadily created a rich body of poems that have mined the rich deposit of emotional and intellectual capital found in her background of multiple migrations, culturally and geographically. McCallum's poems reflect her rooting in a Jamaican experience unique for her childhood in a Rastafarian home filled with reckless idealism, the potential for profound emotional pathology, and the grounding of old folks traditions. Her work has explored what it means to emerge from such a space and enter a new world of American landscapes and values. The Face of Water coll… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Dawes, Kwame (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-84523-186-6
EAN: 9781845231866
Produktnummer: 11734742
Verlag: Peepal Tree Press Ltd
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 142 S.
Masse: H20.6 cm x B13.8 cm x D1.2 cm 178 g
Gewicht: 178
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

Shara McCallum is the director of the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University and the author of three individual collections of poetry, Song of Thieves, This Strange Land, and The Water Between Us. She is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her personal essays have appeared in the Antioch Review, Creative Nonfiction, and Witness. She lives Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.