An Unkindness of Ravens
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
An Unkindness of Ravens
By (Author) Meg Kearney
Foreword by Donald Hall
BOA Editions, Limited
BOA Editions, Limited
10th December 2001
United States
Classifications
Physical Properties
Paperback
96
Width 152mm, Height 226mm, Spine 5mm
144g
Description
In An Unkindness of Ravens, Meg Kearney's poems weave voices of estrangement and redemption: mothers, daughters, lovers of gin, and dead things.
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In an attempt to create an identityto imagine a past when all biological and genealogical ties have been severedKearney's poems create their own mythology in order to tell an emotional truth. A number of poems find the protagonist speaking to the character, Raven, who serves as an imaginary lover, friend, and foe: the vehicle through which the reader identifies with the speaker's joy and angst.
Author Bio
Meg Kearney is the Associate Director of the National Book Foundation. She was the recipient of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and New York Times fellowships and received the Alice M. Sellers Academy of American Poets Prize in 1998. She lives in New York City.
