| Mothers Over Nangarhar Contributor(s): Hart, Pamela (Author) |
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ISBN: 1946448265 ISBN-13: 9781946448262 Publisher: Sarabande Books OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Women Authors - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Places |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2017058703 |
| Series: Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.35 lbs) 80 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Mothers Over Nangarhar is an unusual and powerful war narrative, focusing less on the front lines of combat and more on the home front, a perspective our American cultural canon has largely ignored after 222 years at war. In her stunning poetry debut, Pamela Hart concentrates on the fears and psychological battles suffered by parents, lovers, and friends during a soldier's absence and return home, if indeed there's a return. With honest grit and compassionate imagination, Hart describes her own experience having a son overseas, incorporating lyric meditations, photography, news articles, support group meetings, family interviews, oral histories, and classic literature to construct a documentary-style narrative very much situated in the now. Blending reality with absurdism and guided openly by a Calvino kind of logic, Hart reveals to us a crucial American point of view. |