| The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart: Poems Contributor(s): Calvocoressi, Gabrielle (Author) |
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ISBN: 0892553154 ISBN-13: 9780892553150 Publisher: Persea Books OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2005 Annotation: Featuring a title-poem spoken by those who lived longingly and vicariously through the famous missing aviator, this collection gives voice to 20th century small town America. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2004021865 |
| Series: Karen and Michael Braziller Books |
| Physical Information: 0.24" H x 5.58" W x 8.26" (0.26 lbs) 68 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Whether in the title poem, spoken by those who lived longingly and vicariously through the famous missing aviator, or in Circus Fire, 1944, which intimately recounts a haunting New England tragedy, Gabrielle Calvocoressi uses her prodigious gifts of imagination and empathy to give voice to the hope and heartbreak of small-town America. In painstaking, vernacular verse, she conveys the ambitions and failings of a distraught populacein the edgy jazz portrait, Suite Billy Strayhorn, for example, or the enthralling, interwoven sequence, At the Adult Drive-In, which conveys, at once, a personal and communal corruption. Penetrating and compassionate, The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart portrays, with a storyteller's arc, the troubled landscape of the left-behind. |
Contributor Bio(s): Calvocoressi, Gabrielle: - Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of Apocalyptic Swing, The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart, and Rocket Fantastic. She is Associate Professor and Walker Percy Fellow in Poetry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an editor-at-large for the Los Angeles Review of Books. |