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Pinion - (Southern Messenger Poets) by Claudia Emerson (Paperback)

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  • In this eloquent long poem, Claudia Emerson employs the voices of two family members on a small southern farm to examine the universal complexities of place, generation, memory, and identity.
  • About the Author: Claudia Emersonis also the author of the poetry collection Pharaoh, Pharaoh.
  • 55 Pages
  • Poetry, American
  • Series Name: Southern Messenger Poets

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In this eloquent long poem, Claudia Emerson employs the voices of two family members on a small southern farm to examine the universal complexities of place, generation, memory, and identity. Alternating between the voices of Preacher and Sister, Pinion is narrated by the younger, surviving sister, Rose, in whose memory the now-gone family and farm vividly live on: "In the dream that recurs, like a bird returning, the place is still as it was--as though they went away, years ago, fully intending to be back by first dark."

Sister tells of her observances in day-to-day life in the 1920s and her struggle to take care of her father, grown brothers, and Rose--"the change-of-life baby"--after the death of her mother: "The hens had hidden their heads beneath / their wings; they blinded themselves as I dusted / the kneading bowl with flour sifted fine as silk, and so / I disappeared as I sank my fists into it." Preacher feels keenly the burden of running the farm and fears being the last one to live on the place: "I was held fast there, pinioned, not / dying, growing numb and light, wait-crazed / and finally calm." Both wrestle with a desire for independence and the duty to home they are bound to by birth; neither marries or leaves.

Pinion is ultimately a wrenching elegy that Rose creates. She is the one who escaped, only to realize "I survive them all, but I find I have become the house they keep."



About the Author



Claudia Emersonis also the author of the poetry collection Pharaoh, Pharaoh. Assistant professor of English at Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia, she has been a recipient of artist fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia Commonwealth Commission for the Arts. Her poems have appeared in Southern Review, Georgia Review, TriQuarterly, Crazyhorse, and New England Review, among many other journals.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.96 Inches (H) x 5.56 Inches (W) x .2 Inches (D)
Weight: .22 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 55
Series Title: Southern Messenger Poets
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: American
Publisher: LSU Press
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Claudia Emerson
Language: English
Street Date: February 1, 2002
TCIN: 91092420
UPC: 9780807127667
Item Number (DPCI): 247-28-4349
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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