{"product_id":"madwoman-9781938584282","title":"Madwoman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaunting, 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLittle Soul\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLittle soul--kind, wandering--\u003cbr\u003ebody's host and guest, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003elook how you've lowered yourself, \u003cbr\u003emoving in a world of ice, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ewashed of colour. My girl, \u003cbr\u003ewhat compelled you once\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eis no more.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally from Kingston, Jamaica, \u003cb\u003eShara McCallum \u003c\/b\u003eis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Alice James Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/10\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781938584282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.80w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2016 pg. 85\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/21\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/03\/2017\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Shara McCallum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36671344476316,"sku":"9781938584282","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_14b642d9-923b-4b31-ae4d-8da6d9c773c0.jpg?v=1603925146","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/madwoman-9781938584282","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}