ISBN-13: 9781329006218 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 56 str.
The award winning author's fourth book of poetry finds her meditating on the heroic journey of famed polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912). The poems are adapted from Scott's journals of the doomed Terra Nova expedition of 1910-13. Through "disciplined, beautifully descriptive verse" Linda Pastan], Roberts creates an "epic that chronicles an expedition to the South Pole" Francisco Aragon] which "has seldom been told with such formal control, flashes of color, and suspense." Reginald Harris]
The award winning authors fourth book of poetry finds her meditating on the heroic journey of famed polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912). The poems are adapted from Scotts journals of the doomed Terra Nova expedition of 1910-13. Through "disciplined, beautifully descriptive verse" [Linda Pastan], Roberts creates an "epic that chronicles an expedition to the South Pole" [Francisco Aragón] which "has seldom been told with such formal control, flashes of color, and suspense." [Reginald Harris]