Excavation - Softcover

Janet Jerve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0878396527 ISBN 13: 9780878396528

Publisher: North Star Press of St. Cloud, 2013

"In Excavation, a collection of lyric, narrative, and experimental poems, Janet Jerve investigates the complexity of a woman’s journey though a family history that includes a father who is both nurturing and incestuous. She explores situations of seeing/not seeing by family members and the self. After the father’s death, the woman breaks through her own forgetfulness (the child’s buried memory) and the excavation of the title poem begins . . . These poems are accomplished in craft and form, powerful in feeling." ―Roseann Lloyd, author, of The Boy Who Slept Under the Stars: A Memoir in Poetry

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About the Author:

Janet Jerve grew up near Excelsior, Minnesota. She has taught poetry in Minnesota public schools and worked as a writer/editor for nonprofits. Janet’s poems have appeared in a number of literary journals and anthologies. Marilyn Hacker and Alberto Rios selected her as a finalist for the Loft-McKnight Award in poetry in 1989.

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