A revelatory collection of poems set in the Gulf South, Carolyn Hembree’s For Today chronicles the experience of a woman who becomes a mother shortly after her father’s death and struggles to raise her child amid private and public turmoil. Written in closed and nonce forms that give way to the field composition of the maximalist title poem, the work explores grief, rage, and love in a community vulnerable to Anthropocene climate disasters. Through relationships with her daughter, neighbors, friends, ancestors, other poets (living and dead), and the earth, the speaker is freed to accept and celebrate her own perishability.
Author: Carolyn Hembree
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 01/31/2024
Series: Barataria Poetry
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d
ISBN: 9780807181423
Language: English
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