The Water Between Us - Brossura

McCallum, Shara

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0822957108 ISBN 13: 9780822957102

Casa editrice: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, 1999

Riassunto

1998 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize winner.

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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Shara McCallum’s first boo, The Water Between Us, won the 1998 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. Born in Jamaica, she lives and works in Memphis, Tennessee.

Product Description:

Book by McCallum Shara

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0822957108
• ISBN 13: 9780822957102
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 88