
Lo
Poems
Melissa Crowe(Author)
University of Iowa Press
Published on 24. May 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
88 pages
978-1-60938-899-7 (ISBN)
Description
Lo maps the deprivation and richness of a rural girlhood and offers an intimate portrait of the woman--tender, hungry, hopeful--who manages to emerge. In a series of lyric odes and elegies, Lo explores the notion that we can be partially constituted by lack--poverty, neglect, isolation. The child in the book's early sections is beloved and lonely, cherished and abused, lucky and imperiled, and by leaning into this complexity the poems render a tentative and shimmering space sometimes occluded, the space occupied by a girl coming to find herself and the world beautiful, even as that world harms her.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Iowa
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
68 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60938-899-7 (9781609388997)
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Melissa Crowe is author of Dear Terror, Dear Splendor. She coordinates the MFA program in creative writing at UNCW, where she teaches poetry and publishing. She lives in Wilmington, North Carolina.