Overview
Author of the recent and critically acclaimed memoir, I Hear Voices, Jean Feraca is also an award-winning poet. Her second collection of poems, Crossing the Great Divide, has not been widely available until now but forms a fascinating counterpoint to the story of emergence she reveals in her memoir. Brilliant, passionate, sexual, these poems travel into mythic ancestral landscapes in southern Italy and Sicily, on a psychic journey of self-discovery, sometimes luminous, sometimes harrowing, leading ultimately to deliverance, as in the title poem of the collection: "I shall live out my life rejoicingribboning under the jagged shadow of the hawk. There is no reason for this joyeagle-bald, knifing through me like a canyon. There is nothing in this landscape that defines me."
(copyright Jean Feraca. All rights reserved.)
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781882280001
- ISBN-10: 1882280008
- Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
- Publish Date: February 2008
- Dimensions: 8.93 x 5.98 x 0.25 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.29 pounds
- Page Count: 72
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