Rapture : poems /
McCray, Sjohnna,
Rapture : poems / Sjohnna McCray. - 65 pages ; 23 cm
In this award-winning debut, Sjohnna McCray movingly recounts a life born out of wartime to a Korean mother and an American father serving during the Vietnam War. Their troubled histories, and McCray's own, are told with lyric passion and the mythic undercurrents of discovering one's own identity, one's own desires. What emerges is a self- and family portrait of grief and celebration, one that insists on our lives as anything, please, but singular. Rapture is an extraordinary first collection, with poems of rare grace and feeling.
Walt Whitman Award, 2015
9781555977375 1555977375
2015953596
Identity (Psychology)--Poetry.
Racially mixed children--Poetry.
Families--Poetry.
Children of veterans--Poetry.
Autobiographical poetry.
Rapture : poems / Sjohnna McCray. - 65 pages ; 23 cm
In this award-winning debut, Sjohnna McCray movingly recounts a life born out of wartime to a Korean mother and an American father serving during the Vietnam War. Their troubled histories, and McCray's own, are told with lyric passion and the mythic undercurrents of discovering one's own identity, one's own desires. What emerges is a self- and family portrait of grief and celebration, one that insists on our lives as anything, please, but singular. Rapture is an extraordinary first collection, with poems of rare grace and feeling.
Walt Whitman Award, 2015
9781555977375 1555977375
2015953596
Identity (Psychology)--Poetry.
Racially mixed children--Poetry.
Families--Poetry.
Children of veterans--Poetry.
Autobiographical poetry.