When It Came Time

Jeri Mccormick

ISBN 10: 1897648057 / ISBN 13: 9781897648056

Verlag: Salmon Poetry Jun 1999, 1999

Neuware - These poems chronicle the family's wrenching migration from a long-envelope culture of farms and mines to the city, where they are viewed by their urban neighbors as outsiders. Change informs this journey from a backwoods legacy of the mule-drawn plough to the hustle of an anonymous assembly line. McCormick, who lives in Madison, Wisconsin, draws on childhood sensibilities to explore the powerful theme and to a language.This is her first book. of migration craft memory into a language. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781897648056

Inhaltsangabe:

Jeri McCormick was born in the Kentucky Appalachians and grew up in Cincinnati, where her family moved to escape the mountain depression. These poems chronicle the family's wrenching migration from a long-evolved culture of farms and mines to the city, where they are viewed by their urban neighbors as outsiders. Change informs this journey from a backwoods legacy of the mule-drawn plough to the hustle of an anonymous assembly line. McCormick, who lives in Madison, Wisconsin, draws on childhood sensibilities to explore the powerful theme of migration and to craft memory into a language. This is her first book.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: When It Came Time
Verlag: Salmon Poetry Jun 1999
Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
Einband: Taschenbuch
Zustand: Neu