American Wake
Kerrin McCadden
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American Wake
Kerrin McCadden
Información del libro
New from a poet whose astonishing images, emotional honesty, and storytelling power holds a singular clarity of vision. An American wake is what the Irish call a farewell to those emigrating to the United States. A New England writer equally at home in Ireland, Kerrin McCadden explores family, death and grief, apologies, and all manner of departures in this collection. As she writes in the title poem: When we are out to sea, we look back to see faces
ringing the shore like a fence, those we love in up
to their hips in waves, waving goodbye like mad. Among the 50 poems included are My Broken Family, Weeks After My Brother Overdoses, One Way to Apologize to a Daughter for Careless Words, Portrait of the Family as a Definition, and My Mother Talks to Her Son about Her Heart. This collection by a writer of extraordinary gifts will appeal to any reader with a belief in the magic of words to unveil our world and our deepest feelings to ourselves.
Preguntas frecuentes
Información
How the Heart Works
My Brother Wailing
Índice
- Praise for American Wake
- Also by Kerrin McCadden
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Epigraph
- Epistle: Leaving
- On the Moon
- Seal Bride
- What I Have Lost at Sea
- Cuchulain
- Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear
- Portrait of the Family as a Definition
- My Mother Talks to Her Son about Her Heart
- In the Window at Áras an Uachtaráin
- Street View
- In the Harbor
- Our House Behind the Hawthorns
- Work Song
- The Woodpile
- In Leghowney, Donegal
- American Wake
- The Magpie: A Key
- When My Brother Dies
- Homegoing
- The Dead
- If They Mean to Have a War, Let It Begin Here
- Work Song: Ruin
- Longshoreman
- Joke
- A Hagiography
- On Interstate 89 North
- Nest
- Aubade with Heavy Equipment
- Passerines
- One Way to Apologize to a Daughter for Careless Words
- How the Heart Works
- My Brother Wailing
- Worry
- The Big Dig
- Choose Your Own Adventure: Loneliness
- Homing
- At Franklin County Airport
- Getting Ready for Bed
- Saying the Rosary, Station Island
- Awake
- Late Winter
- Moving Again
- Nine White Deer
- My Broken Family
- Forgetting
- Killeter Forest: Father McLaughlin’s Well
- Under the Bluestack Mountains
- Shaking the Sheets
- Planetarium
- Losing
- In Event of Moon Disaster
- Mass General
- reverse overdose
- Only Child
- Weeks After My Brother Overdoses
- Epistle: Joyride
- Kingfisher
- Ashes
- Home on Holiday
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author