The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart – Poems (Karen and Michael Braziller Books) - Softcover

Calvocoressi, Gabrielle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0892553154 ISBN 13: 9780892553150

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2005

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0892553154
• ISBN 13: 9780892553150
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 68