Rapture Poems
Rapture Poems
- ISBN 13:
9781555977375
- ISBN 10:
1555977375
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 04/05/2016
- Publisher: Graywolf Press
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Summary
Because I can never say anything
plainly. Because I always stutter
politely. Because there's always the chatter
before the kiss.
--from "In Need of Subtitles"
In this award-winning debut, Sjohnna McCray movingly recounts a life born out of wartime to a Korean mother and an American father serving during the Vietnam War. Their troubled histories, and McCray's own, are told with lyric passion and the mythic undercurrents of discovering one's own identity, one's own desires. What emerges is a self- and family portrait of grief and celebration, one that insists on our lives as anything, please, but singular. Rapture is an extraordinary first collection, with poems of rare grace and feeling.