These poems trace the speaker’s emotional biography from a wild and impoverished rural childhood through tender and terrifying adulthood. Rooted in the heart and the messy organs of our mortality, Melissa Crowe’s work is epistolary in tone but gritty in texture. She reckons with the pure pain and buoyant beauty of survival, loss, parenthood, and letting go. These deeply personal poems embrace the hurt that accompanies intimacy and insist that we love fiercely.
| ISBN: | 9780299321444 |
| Publication date: | 28th February 2019 |
| Author: | Melissa Crowe |
| Publisher: | University of Wisconsin Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 104 pages |
| Series: | Wisconsin Poetry Series |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets |