{"product_id":"pinion-an-elegy-paperback","title":"Pinion: An Elegy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eClaudia Emerson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this eloquent long poem, Claudia Emerson employs the voices of two family members on a small southern farm to examine the universal complexities of place, generation, memory, and identity. Alternating between the voices of Preacher and Sister, \u003ci\u003ePinion\u003c\/i\u003e is narrated by the younger, surviving sister, Rose, in whose memory the now-gone family and farm vividly live on: \"In the dream that recurs, like a bird returning, the place is still as it was--as though they went away, years ago, fully intending to be back by first dark.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSister tells of her observances in day-to-day life in the 1920s and her struggle to take care of her father, grown brothers, and Rose--\"the change-of-life baby\"--after the death of her mother: \"The hens had hidden their heads beneath \/ their wings; they blinded themselves as I dusted \/ the kneading bowl with flour sifted fine as silk, and so \/ I disappeared as I sank my fists into it.\" Preacher feels keenly the burden of running the farm and fears being the last one to live on the place: \"I was held fast there, pinioned, not \/ dying, growing numb and light, wait-crazed \/ and finally calm.\" Both wrestle with a desire for independence and the duty to home they are bound to by birth; neither marries or leaves. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePinion\u003c\/i\u003e is ultimately a wrenching elegy that Rose creates. She is the one who escaped, only to realize \"I survive them all, but I find I have become the house they keep.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eClaudia Emerson\u003c\/b\u003eis also the author of the poetry collection \u003ci\u003ePharaoh, Pharaoh.\u003c\/i\u003e Assistant professor of English at Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia, she has been a recipient of artist fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia Commonwealth Commission for the Arts. Her poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eSouthern Review, Georgia Review, TriQuarterly, Crazyhorse, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNew England Review, \u003c\/i\u003e among many other journal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 55\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.2 x 8.96 x 5.56 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42723083518015,"sku":"9780807127667","price":23.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/9b0402220f26a0fa95caeed7e4a09fee.webp?v=1765097956","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/pinion-an-elegy-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}