What the Willow Said as It Fell

This book-length poem by the current Poet Laureate of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Andrea Scarpino, asks the reader to sit with and inside the body's many losses, to grow comfortable and restless in its vagaries, and to acknowledge the myriad ways the body shapes and informs our lives. Incorporating found poetry, including from her own medical records, and the ash and willow tree as mythological figures, Scarpino writes with lyric intensity from a place of resistance and questioning as she tries to describe, understand, and record chronic pain as a growing epidemic.

Author: Andrea Scarpino
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Published: 04/25/2016
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 9.00h x 7.30w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781597097314