Dresses from the Old Country

In Laura Read's second poetry collection, the former poet laureate of Spokane, WA, weaves past and present together to create a portrait of a life in progress. As the speaker looks back on her life, she exists simultaneously as all the selves she has ever been: a lost child, a lonely adolescent, a teacher, a daughter, a friend, a wife, a mother--a woman continually shaped and reshaped by memory and experience. Deeply rooted in a particular time and place, Read's poems strip away the illusion of the passage of time as they reveal how we are all wearing "dresses from the old country."

Author: Laura Read
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: BOA Editions
Published: 10/09/2018
Series: American Poets Continuum
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.80w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781942683667