Madwoman - by Shara McCallum (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Poems progress through the wilds of the mind and memory, dispatching parables, and challenging of the myth of self.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>These wonderful poems open a world of sensation and memory. But it is a world revealed by language, never just controlled. The voice that guides the action here is openhearted and open-minded--a lyric presence that never deserts the subject or the reader. Syntax, craft and cadence add to the gathering music from poem to poem with--to use a beautiful phrase from the book, 'each note tethering sound to meaning.'--Eavan Boland</p><p>Haunting, alarming, transformative, and elusive, these poems bridge together the gaps between development stages: from girl, to woman, and then mother. With the complexities that intertwine them, can you be all three at once? Who shapes our identity, and who is in control here? How do we recognize, acknowledge, and honor the changing of who we are?</p><p><b>Little Soul</b></p><p><i>Little soul--kind, wandering--<br>body's host and guest, </i></p><p><i>look how you've lowered yourself, <br>moving in a world of ice, </i></p><p><i>washed of colour. My girl, <br>what compelled you once</i></p><p><i>is no more.</i></p><p>Originally from Kingston, Jamaica, <b>Shara McCallum </b>is the author of four previous books of poetry. Recognition for her poetry includes a Witter Bynner Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship. Her poems and personal essays have been published in literary magazines, anthologies, and textbooks in the United States, United Kingdom, Caribbean, Latin America, and Israel and have been translated into Spanish, French, and Romanian. Since 2003, McCallum has been the Director of the Stadler Center for Poetry and a Professor of creative writing and literature at Bucknell University.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Originally from Kingston, Jamaica, Shara McCallum is the author of four books of poetry: <i>The Face of Water: New and Selected Poems</i> (Peepal Tree Press, UK, 2011); <i>This Strange Land </i>(Alice James Books, US, 2011), a finalist for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature; <i>Song of Thieves</i> (University of Pittsburgh Press, US, 2003); and <i>The Water Between Us </i>(University of Pittsburgh Press, US, 1999), winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize for Poetry. Her fifth book, <i>Madwoman</i>, is forthcoming from Alice James Books in 2017. Recognition for her poetry includes a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress and a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship. Her poems and personal essays have been published in literary magazines, anthologies, and textbooks in the US, the UK, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Israel and have been translated into Spanish, French, and Romanian. Since 2003, McCallum has been the Director of the Stadler Center for Poetry and a Professor of creative writing and literature at Bucknell University.
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