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American South
angels
Author_Carolyn Hembree
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fantasia
fear
female speaker
field composition
fragility
haiku
living in the present
Louisiana poets
motherhood
natural world
New Orleans
southern culture
temporary state
violence
women's voices
Product details
- ISBN 9780807181423
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jan 2024
- Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A revelatory collection of poems set in the Gulf South, Carolyn Hembree's For Today chronicles the experience of a woman who becomes a mother shortly after her father's death and struggles to raise her child amid private and public turmoil. Written in closed and nonce forms that give way to the field composition of the maximalist title poem, the work explores grief, rage, and love in a community vulnerable to Anthropocene climate disasters. Through relationships with her daughter, neighbors, friends, ancestors, other poets (living and dead), and the earth, the speaker is freed to accept and celebrate her own perishability.
Carolyn Hembree is the author of Skinny and Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague. She is associate professor at the University of New Orleans and serves as poetry editor of Bayou Magazine.
