America that island off the coast of France
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Author
Publication
2019 - Tupelo Press, North Adams, Massachusetts, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
20,750 words, Guess
Page Count
83 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-101946482242
- ISBN-139781946482242
- OCLC Control Number1110065965
- Better World Books9781946482242
- Open LibraryOL44291694M
Classifications
- DDC811.54
- LCCPS3561.E558 A66 2019
Description
"America that island off the coast of France speaks to the impossibility of emigration, of ever being the citizen of only one country. Born in France, raised in Florida, Kercheval now divides her time between the U.S. and Uruguay. The poems hurtle across literary and linguistic borders toward a lyricism that slows down experience to create a new form of elegiac memoir. Against the backdrops of Paris, Montevideo, and Florida, the poems explore citizenship and homelessness, motherhood and self, family and freedom, turning over and over again the very meaning of the word home, as the poems, like the poet, make the fraught journey back and forth between America and France. As Kercheval wonders in her poem "The Red Balloon," "is leaving / ever painless? Is returning?""-- Page [4] of cover.
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