All that divides us : poems / by Elinor Benedict.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benedict, Elinor, 1931-

Contributor:

This book is freely available in digital formats through the Utah State University Library Digital Commons., funder.

Series:

May Swenson Poetry Award series.

May Swenson Poetry Award series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (80 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Logan : Utah State University Press, c2000.

Logan Utah State University Press, [2003]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Although the poems in this collection are not narrative, they do present a narrative, gradually unspooling the tale of the poet's rebel aunt, who left the family ""to marry a Chinaman"" in the 1930s. It's an old story, full of poignancy, mystery, family pride, and doubt. When the aunt returns to die, the poet, now grown, discovers in herself the need to reclaim the connections that her family had severed. She travels to China several times-to learn. Gradually, through wide-eyed insightful poems, we see the poet rebuild with her Chinese cousins a sense of generation, family, and humanity-b

Contents:

Contents

Foreword

1. Begin the Ceremony

2. Strangers and Kin

3. In the Company of Magpies

4. Looking for Grace

acknowledgements

about the author

about the May Swenson Poetry Award.

Notes:

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This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

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Print version:

ISBN:

9786613266804

9781283266802

1283266806

9780874213331

0874213339

OCLC:

476039795

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access