In language wild and restrained, opulent and precise, these sonnets make something lasting, even beautiful, from tragedy--personal and national.Diane Raptosh's collection of sonnets, I Eric America, combines elements of family trauma (her brother Eric's survival of a plane crash and subsequent paraplegia) with disturbances on the national stage. Equal parts origin story, myth, and song, the book unfolds from the premise that "America...
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