Last Seen (Wisconsin Poetry Series) - Softcover

Jones LaMon, Jacqueline

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0299282945 ISBN 13: 9780299282943

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011

Synopsis

Inspired by actual case histories of long-term missing African American children, this provocative and heartrending collection of poems evokes the experience of what it means to be among the missing in contemporary America. This thought-provoking collection of persona poems looks at absence from the standpoint of the witnesses surrounding the void and offers an intimate depiction of those impossible moments of aftermath lived by those who remain accounted for and present. While enabling us to question our own sense of identity, this unique collection of poems reveals the blurred edges of separation between them and us and the impact that the missing have upon our present and future.
Finalist, NAACP Image Awards

About this title

About the Author:

Jacqueline Jones LaMon is associate professor of English and director of the MFA program in creative writing at Adelphi University. She is author of the poetry collection Gravity, U.S.A. and the novel In the Arms of One Who Loves Me.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

Their name for you tastes bitter and uncooked.

Do not listen when they say you were adopted. Hear your given, gnaw upon this gristle.You are someone’s missing boy. Your father named youJeremiah.—excerpt from “How the Bryant Boy Will Know”© The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0299282945
• ISBN 13: 9780299282943
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 67