{"product_id":"pinion-1","title":"Pinion","description":"In this eloquent long poem, Claudia Emerson employs the voices of two family members on a small southern farm to examine the universal complexities of place, generation, memory, and identity. Alternating between the voices of Preacher and Sister, \u003ci\u003ePinion\u003c\/i\u003e is narrated by the younger, surviving sister, Rose, in whose memory the now-gone family and farm vividly live on: \"\"In the dream that recurs, like a bird returning, the place is still as it was, as though they went away, years ago, fully intending to be back by first dark.\"\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSister tells of her observances in day-to-day life in the 1920s and her struggle to take care of her father, grown brothers, and Rose, \"\"the change-of-life baby\"\", after the death of her mother: \"\"The hens had hidden their heads beneath \/ their wings; they blinded themselves as I dusted \/ the kneading bowl with fi‚our sifted fine as silk, and so \/ I disappeared as I sank my fists into it.\"\" Preacher feels keenly the burden of running the farm and fears being the last one to live on the place: \"\"I was held fast there, pinioned, not \/ dying, growing numb and light, wait-crazed \/ and finally calm.\"\" Both wrestle with a desire for independence and the duty to home they are bound to by birth; neither marries or leaves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePinion\u003c\/i\u003e is ultimately a wrenching elegy that Rose creates. She is the one who escaped, only to realise \"\"I survive them all, but I find I have become the house they keep.","brand":"Louisiana State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55807360106840,"sku":"9780807127667","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780807127667.jpg?v=1778679067","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/pinion-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}