When It Came Time

by Jeri McCormick

These poems chronicle the family's wrenching migration from a long-envelope culture of farms and mines to the city, where they are viewed by their urban neighbors as outsiders. Change informs this journey from a backwoods legacy of the mule-drawn plough to the hustle of an anonymous assembly line. McCormick, who lives in Madison, Wisconsin, draws on childhood sensibilities to explore the powerful theme and to a language.This is her first book. of migration craft memory into a language.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1897648057
• ISBN13: 9781897648056
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Salmon Poetry
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 4.7" x 7.7"