Dolefully, a Rampart Stands

A collection of haunting, image-rich poems about isolation, captivity, and vanishing.

The poems in Paige Ackerson-Kiely's third collection are set primarily in the rural northeast of America, and explore rural poverty, entrapment, captivity, violence, and a longing to vanish. Ranging from free verse to a long noir prose poem, they examine who her, or our, "captors" might be. Ackerson-Kiely is interested in characters who are aware of their foibles, and who find ways to turn away from those problems in search of connection and freedom.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 02/05/2019
ISBN: 9780143132684
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.40d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 12/17/2018
Booklist 02/01/2019 pg. 16