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"These wonderful poems open a world of sensation and memory. But it is a world revealed by language, never just controlled. The voice that guides the action here is openhearted and open-minded - a lyric presence that never deserts the subject or the reader. Syntax, craft and cadence add to the gathering music from poem to poem with - to use a beautiful phrase from the book, 'each note tethering sound to meaning.'" - Eavan BolandHaunting, alarming, transformative, and elusive, these poems bridge together the gaps between development stages: from girl, to woman, and then mother. With the complexities that intertwine them, can you be all three at once? Who shapes our identity, and who is in control here? How do we recognize, acknowledge, and honor the changing of who we are?Little SoulLittle soul - kind, wandering - body's host and guest,look how you've lowered yourself,moving in a world of ice,washed of colour.
About the Author
Shara McCallum (born Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican American poet, who was recently awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry. The author of three poetry collections, McCallum's work has additionally appeared in The Antioch Review, Callaloo, Chelsea, The Iowa Review, Verse, Creative Nonfiction, Seneca Review, Witness. She graduated from the University of Miami, from the University of Maryland, with an M.F.A., and from Binghamton University in New York, with a PhD She has taught at the Stonecoast MFA program. She directs the Stadler Center for Poetry and teaches creative writing and literature at Bucknell University. She lives in Pennsylvania with her family.
