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This Strange Land

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ISBN-10: 1882295862

ISBN-13: 9781882295869

Edition: 2011

Authors: Shara McCallum

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" This Strange Landis a remarkably accomplished book, ranging from childhood to parenthood, Jamaica to America, in a way that feels integrated and organic. With mature hindsight, Shara McCallum revisits early experience with a piercing clarity (even in dialect, as in the wonderful "Miss Sally" poems), exposing its undercurrents in the present. Intimate, serious, and beautifully crafted, these poems scrutinize the griefs and beauties of familial life and memorialize them with meticulous care."--Chase Twichell These poems probe the definition of Motherland. Shara McCallum homogenizes childhood memories of her native Jamaica with a revised understanding of danger and corruption, teasing out…    
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Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Alice James Books
Publication date: 5/17/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 80
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.330

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