Home by Now (Malcolm McDonald Series Selection) - Softcover

Kearney, Meg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1884800947 ISBN 13: 9781884800948

Publisher: Four Way Books, 2009

Synopsis

The characters of Meg Kearney’s gritty second poetry collection travel the shadows and edges of modern life. Searching for home and knowing that, once found, home might dissolve without warning, Kearney carves a richly lyric poetry. You will hear the voices of this striking book right in your ear, telling hard-learned lessons that are as unsettling as they are necessary.

About this title

About the Author:

MEG KEARNEY is the author of the poetry collection An Unkindness of Ravens and The Secret of Me, a novel in verse for teens. Her poetry has been featured on Poetry Daily and Garrison Keillor’s “A Writer’s Almanac,” and has been published in Poetry, Agni, Ploughshares, The Gettysburg Review, and elsewhere. Meg is Director of the Solstice Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program at Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, as well as Director of Pine Manor’s Solstice Summer Writers Conference. She lives in southern New Hampshire.

From Publishers Weekly:

Fluent and easy to like, serious in its take on the American life course, this second collection of poems for adults from Kearney (she's also the author of young adult verse) looks hard at the troubles and changes of Kearney's own experience, as an adopted child, as the daughter of an ailing father, as a sometime New Yorker who relocated after 9/11 to northern New England. The first—and perhaps the most verbally brilliant—poems depict the ups and downs of her teens: When I got my head stuck between the porch rails/ I didn't know enough yet to hate my body, but I knew/ a thing or two about smoking my father's cigars. Later she portrays herself as a grownup adrift (Rum & Coke & a New Apartment). In the city, The bike-shop bag goes scrish-scrish/ against your leg as you head home, even as, in Wyoming, your father's hand trembles, reaching/ for the water glass; in New Hampshire, we're street-smart and wary/ enough not to let our Lab run the woods/ at night alone. Defiance mixed with caution drives her conversational lines. Kearney (An Unkindness of Ravens) neither finds, nor seeks, great innovations; instead, she presents her life as representative, an occasion for tangents, for sadness, and for joie de vivre. (Nov.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Four Way Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1884800947
• ISBN 13: 9781884800948
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 80