Perennial

The events of 1999's Columbine shooting preoccupy Forsythe in these poems, refracting her vision to encompass killer, victim, and herself as a girl, suddenly aware of the precarity of her own life and the porousness of her body to others' gaze, demands, violence. Deeply researched and even more deeply felt, Perennial inhabits landscapes of emerging adulthood and explosive cruelty--the hills of Pittsburgh and the sere grass of Colorado; the spines of books in a high school library that has become a killing ground; the tenderness of children as they grow up and grow hard, becoming acquainted with dread, grief, and loss.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 08/07/2018
ISBN: 9781566895170
Pages: 75
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Review Citations: Library Journal 06/15/2018 pg. 76
Publishers Weekly 07/16/2018