The Return of the Native
January 2011
The Return of the Native
$14.00
"With a fine intelligence and a subtle ear she tracks both instabilities and possibilities"
— Rosemarie Waldrop
About the Book
The Return of the Native is both a pastoral and its counterpoint. A series of 23 poems, it enacts a struggle between the romance of recorded history and the social conditions of the global present. Topical threads include New England colonial, American folk, and Native American history; the construction of the Quabbin Reservoir in central Massachusetts; and the specious gloss of American “road” culture, all filtered through a fine mesh of Thomas Hardy.
Praise
With a fine intelligence and a subtle ear she tracks both instabilities and possibilities, the map that is mere broken shards and the shards that can become a map.
— Rosemarie Waldrop