96 pages, 6 x 9
1 illus.
Paperback
Release Date:28 Apr 2023
ISBN:9781625347275
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Once, This Forest Belonged to a Storm

University of Massachusetts Press
Does history live inside of us? Are we capable of transcending the past or are we destined to repeat it? With understated humor and grace, Once, This Forest Belonged to a Storm grapples with questions of inheritance, spiritual unrest, the integrity of the self, and humanity’s relationship to the natural world. Excavating both personal and historical trauma and the rippling effects of the Holocaust, Austen Leah Rose writes of “wounds that can only be healed/ by their own perpetrators, tooth of a wolf, hair of a witch, land of rain. . . ” The poems in this debut collection map a surreal journey from alienation to belonging, as our speaker floats across the night sky over Los Angeles, communes with Shakespeare in a hotel room, attends a dinner party in outer space, and drifts down a river for fourteen years with her sister.
RELATED TOPICS: Literature, Poetry
Austen Leah Rose’s poetry has appeared in AGNIThe Iowa ReviewNarrativeZyzzyva, and The Southern Review, among other outlets. She was the 2018 recipient of the Walter Sullivan Award from The Sewanee Review.
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