America That Island Off the Coast of France

by Jesse Lee Kercheval

Book Overview

America that island off the coast of France hurtles across literary and linguistic borders, toward a lyricism that slows down experience to create a new form of elegiac memoir. Born in France, raised in Florida, Jesse Lee Kercheval now divides her time between the U.S. and Uruguay. Her poems speak to the impossibility of emigration, of ever being the citizen of only one country. Against the backdrops of Paris, Montevideo, and Florida, these poems...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1946482242
• ISBN13: 9781946482242
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Tupelo Press
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"