Called Back - Softcover

Lane, Rosa

 
9781961209107: Called Back

Synopsis

Rosa Lane brings a necessary, gender-fluid, feminist perspective to the Emily Dickinson table of debate.

In bold tribute with a title utilizing the last two words Emily Dickinson wrote, Rosa Lane’s Called Back converses with one of our greatest poets in theatrical monologue―decoding secrets amid the blatant. Evoked by epigraphs selected from Dickinson’s work, Lane’s poems, through her I-speaker, reveal the extraordinary to be found in the ordinary and speak to the struggle of sexual orientation, otherness, and the challenges of living in a Calvinistic socioreligious world of oughts and noughts as evidenced in Dickinson’s poems. From sapphic eroticism and subsequent pangs of nonbelonging to tacking next life as a welcome reprieve, poems in Called Back create a de novo dot-connecting lyrical narrative.

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About the Author

Rosa Lane, poet and architect, is author of four poetry collections, including Chouteau's Chalk, Tiller North, and Roots and Reckonings. Her work won the 2018 William Matthews Poetry Prize and a Maine Literary Award and is forthcoming or has appeared in the Asheville Poetry Review, Cutthroat, Five Points, Massachusetts Review, Nimrod, Ploughshares, Quarterly West, RHINO Poetry, River Heron Review, Southampton Review, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence and a PhD in sustainable architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. She splits her time between her native home in coastal Maine and the San Francisco Bay Area where she lives with her wife.

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