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Highlights
- Running Wild collects Patricia McMillen's sonnets, free verse and experimental forms to outline one woman's life and ever-changing perspective: from a 1950's suburban childhood, through a harrowing (but privileged) young adulthood, to middle age and well within sight of "elderhood".
- Author(s): Patricia McMillen
- 100 Pages
- Poetry, Women Authors
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About the Book
This first full-length poetry collection showcases her personal, often political sonnets, free verse and experimental poems, with themes stemming from a 50s suburban childhood to miscarriage, divorce, AIDS, love and war, up to the present day.
Book Synopsis
Running Wild collects Patricia McMillen's sonnets, free verse and experimental forms to outline one woman's life and ever-changing perspective: from a 1950's suburban childhood, through a harrowing (but privileged) young adulthood, to middle age and well within sight of "elderhood". Relatable narratives, especially for women, include surviving childhood, marriage (twice!) and infertility treatments; an abortive attempt to form a family with a widower and his reluctant adult children, in yet another Chicago suburb; and the continual emotional and intellectual work of being, well, a smart, educated white woman in America right now. Includes award-winning poems "Yang," "Dark Night," "Smelt Fishing"...and many more!
Review Quotes
Patricia McMillen is the real deal. Her writing is full of color and music and clean wind. I admire this work. Get it.-Luis Alberto Urrea, Mexican-American novelist, poet and essayist
Running Wild by Patricia McMillen breathes a distinct, unmistakable voice. These poems speak a woman honest, earthy, fearless, forgiving, and provocatively sassy. So much in this collection to savor, it is a book readers will return to again and again to mine its many layers of emotion and meaning. In these poems you feel the motherly love of a poet who holds her sharp-edged poems close, pressed to her breast like a child.-Albert DeGenova, poet, founding publisher and editor at After Hours Press