Whether in the title poem, spoken by those who lived longingly and vicariously through the famous missing aviator, or in "Circus Fire, 1944," which intimately recounts a haunting New England tragedy, Gabrielle Calvocoressi uses her prodigious gifts of imagination and empathy to give voice to the hope and heartbreak of small-town America. In painstaking, vernacular verse, she conveys the ambitions and failings of a distraught populacein the edgy jazz portrait, "Suite Billy Strayhorn," for example, or the enthralling, interwoven sequence, "At the Adult Drive-In," which conveys, at once, a personal and communal corruption. Penetrating and compassionate, The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart portrays, with a storyteller's arc, the troubled landscape of the left-behind.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Persea Books
Published: 04/25/2005
ISBN: 9780892553150
Pages: 68
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 8.26h x 5.58w x 0.24d
Award: Connecticut Book Awards - Winner

Review Citations: Library Journal 08/01/2005 pg. 89
New York Times 07/17/2005 pg. 12
Booklist 03/15/2005 pg. 1259