For Today: Poems

by Carolyn Hembree

Book Overview

A revelatory collection of poems set in the Gulf South, Carolyn Hembree's For Today chronicles the experience of a woman who becomes a mother shortly after her father's death and struggles to raise her child amid private and public turmoil. Written in closed and nonce forms that give way to the field composition of the maximalist title poem, the work explores grief, rage, and love in a community vulnerable to Anthropocene climate disasters...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807181420
• ISBN13: 9780807181423
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 106 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"