I Eric America

ISBN-13: 9798988198550 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 84 str.

Diane Raptosh

Opis

In language wild and restrained, opulent and precise, these sonnets make something lasting, even beautiful, from tragedy – personal and national. Diane Raptosh’s collection of sonnets, I Eric America, combines elements of family trauma (her brother Eric’s survival of a plane crash and subsequent paraplegia) with disturbances on the national stage. Equal parts origin story, myth, and song, the book unfolds from the premise that “America is the nation-expression of / a severely traumatized person”. Throughout their singing, the poems seek to heal, transmute and transform.