This poignant collection of masterful elegies centers on the revelatory ways in which the speaker reconciles love, loss, and grief's legacy. Following her mother's battle with colon cancer and her own crisis of meaning, Henning culminates the collection with her rediscovery of joy in life's small moments.
This poignant collection of masterful elegies centers on the revelatory ways in which the speaker reconciles love, loss, and grief's legacy. Following her mother's battle with colon cancer and her own crisis of meaning, Henning culminates the collection with her rediscovery of joy in life's small moments.
Sara Henning is the author of View from True North, cowinner of the 2017 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Award and the 2019 High Plains Book Award. Her honors include the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize, the George Bogin Memorial Award, the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award, and awards from the Sewanee Writers' Conference and the Vermont Studio Center. Her work has been published in journals such as Quarterly West, Crab Orchard Review, Witness, Crazyhorse, Meridian, and the Cincinnati Review. She lives and writes in Huntington, West Virginia, where she teaches at Marshall University.
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I. Terra Inferna Terra Inferna Elegy with Saltwater Taffy Queening Mom’s Eggs Elegy Beginning with the Birth of a Mountain God of the Kitchen Window French Fries Smoking in the Car Cancer Here Be Dragons II. Terra Incognita Terra Incognita Elegy for the Color Pink Once, I Prayed in the Water Woman in Flames The Boy God, You Are a Muscadine Still Life with Smoke Elegy with Blueberries Death Buried the Daughter I Was What the Time-Share Man at the Westgate Hotel Tried to Sell Me III. Terra Nova Terra Nova IV. Terra Firma Terra Firma Last Stash Traitor Angels Mercy Villanelle Elegy in the Shape of a River Weather Haibun They Call Her Mi Corazon My Mother Comes Back as a Dragonfly Cherishing Winter Gazebo Acknowledgments Notes
I. Terra Inferna Terra Inferna Elegy with Saltwater Taffy Queening Mom’s Eggs Elegy Beginning with the Birth of a Mountain God of the Kitchen Window French Fries Smoking in the Car Cancer Here Be Dragons II. Terra Incognita Terra Incognita Elegy for the Color Pink Once, I Prayed in the Water Woman in Flames The Boy God, You Are a Muscadine Still Life with Smoke Elegy with Blueberries Death Buried the Daughter I Was What the Time-Share Man at the Westgate Hotel Tried to Sell Me III. Terra Nova Terra Nova IV. Terra Firma Terra Firma Last Stash Traitor Angels Mercy Villanelle Elegy in the Shape of a River Weather Haibun They Call Her Mi Corazon My Mother Comes Back as a Dragonfly Cherishing Winter Gazebo Acknowledgments Notes
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