Once

ISBN-13: 9780393343946 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 92 str.

Meghan O'Rourke

Opis

These poems are shadowed by illness, both civic and personal, and by the mysterious currents of grief. What emerges over the course of the volume is a meditation not only on a daughter's relationship with her mother but also on a citizen's to her nation. Throughout, Once examines the forces that shape war, divorce, and death, exploring personal culpability and charting uncertain new beginnings as the speakers seek to build homes in a shattered land and find whole selves amid broken, thwarted relationships from "Frontier" . . . At times, I felt sick, intoxicate by BPA and mercury At other times I fasted and the star stumbled clear from the vault Up there, the universe stands around drunk I hope the Lord is kind to us for we engrave our every mistake . .