What the Willow Said as It Fell

by Andrea Scarpino

This book-length poem by the current Poet Laureate of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Andrea Scarpino, asks the reader to sit with and inside the body's many losses, to grow comfortable and restless in its vagaries, and to acknowledge the myriad ways the body shapes and informs our lives. Incorporating found poetry, including from her own medical records, and the ash and willow tree as mythological figures, Scarpino writes with lyric intensity from a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597097314
• ISBN13: 9781597097314
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Red Hen Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.3" x 9.0"