Split the Crow

Sarah Sousa

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“The poems of Sarah Sousa’s Split the Crow employ archaeology as a means of giving voice not only to the land, but to long-gone peoples. We discover the objects that individuals were equipped with for their final journeys, as well as witnessing their tales. Sousa’s work picks up where conventional history has left off, giving voice to urgent testimonies. ‘The Lost People,’ states, ‘On the train coming east, / not knowing what else to do, boys sang / the death songs our warriors sang riding into battle,’ just one of many instances where Native American accounts find a ready home in Sousa’s poetry. Split the Crow is a collection of tremendous magnitude that calls upon the past as a way to reconsider our present moment.” —Mary Biddinger

Informations

• Publié par: Parlor Press, LLC
• Date de parution: 06 janvier 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781602356368
• Langue: English

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SARAH SOUSA

PARLOR PRESS

SPLIT THE CROW

Free Verse Edîtîons

Edîted by Jon Tompson

SPLIT THE CROW

S arah S ouSa

Parlor Press Anderson, South Carolina www.parlorpress.com

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Lîbrary o Congress Cataogîng-în-Pubîcatîon Data Sousa, Sara.

 [Poems. Seectîons]  Spît te crow / Sara Sousa.  1 onîne resource. -- (Free verse edîtîons)  Descrîptîon based on prînt versîon record and CïP data provîded by pubîser; resource not vîewed.  ïSBN 978-1-60235-636-8 (pd ) -- ïSBN 978-1-60235-637-5 (epub) -- ïSBN 978-1-60235-638-2 ( mobî) -- ïSBN 978-1-60235- 635-1 (sotcover : acîd-ree paper)  ï. Tîte.  PS3619.O878  811’.6--dc23  2015003446

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Contents

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SPLIT THE CROW