This Strange Land - by Shara McCallum (Mixed Media Product)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In This Strange Land, mother is an island treading water, a buoyed homeland beyond her homeland.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><P>These poems probe the definition of Motherland. Shara McCallum homogenizes childhood memories of her native Jamaica with a revised understanding of danger and corruption, teasing out notions of history, language, motherhood, rupture, memory, and identity. She weaves new cloth of oral tradition, struggling to arrange a comfort zone within the foreign manufactures of suburbia. Hers is the skilled music of a master.<BR><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><P>""This Strange Land" is a remarkably accomplished book, ranging from childhood to parenthood, Jamaica to America, in a way that feels integrated and organic. With mature hindsight, Shara McCallum revisits early experience with a piercing clarity (even in dialect, as in the wonderful "Miss Sally" poems), exposing its undercurrents in the present. Intimate, serious, and beautifully crafted, these poems scrutinize the griefs and beauties of familial life and memorialize them with meticulous care."--Chase Twichell<P>""This Strange Land" poignantly and appropriately begins with 'Psalm for Kingston, ' a poem that calls out to a violent city and its resilient inhabitants. The voices of Kingston...are brought up and left to fade into the fabric of the verse... It is a fitting way to introduce a book that is in search of what feels almost lost and yet ever-present."--Thom Dawkins, "Weave Magazine"<P>"These are poems of ruin and rebirth, of the joys and damage a mother knows...This is a marvelous collection filled with a lovely and evocative music. Highly recommended."--"Library Journal", starred review<P>"Jean Rhys could be the presiding spirit of this moving collection, which mines deep veins of loss and displacement. The personal and the political converge in new ways in these finely crafted poems, and readers should be prepared for unexpected turns and genuine surprises."--Lorna Goodison<BR><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><P>Shara McCallum is the author of "Song of Thieves" (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003) and "The Water Between Us" (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999). Originally from Jamaica, she lives with her family in central Pennsylvania, where she directs the Stadler Center for Poetry and teaches creative writing and literature at Bucknell University.
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