The core of Larks is rural and mythic and true, existential and domestic, tender while full of sharp grief and documentation. Circling genealogies of silence and harm in a southern family, Larks centers on the relationship and memories of three sisters and Ovid’s telling of Philomel. In a landscape inhabited as much by farm animals (cows, goats, chickens, and barn kittens) as by the family, the lyric poem parses and articulates the self’s history–from the experience of a sister’s home birth to the traumatic erasure (and recovery) of the speaker’s memory. A work of poetic memoir, Larks asks if poetry can hold the heaviest truths we carry. The answer is a resounding yes.
Author: Han Vanderhart
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 03/11/2025
Series: Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 9.13h x 5.91w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780821425916
Language: English
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.