Description
Sarah Audsleys debut poetry collection, Landlock X, joins a growing body of adoptee poetics. By examining the consequences of the international transracial adoptee experienceher ownAudsleys collection finds more questions than solid answers. Employing a variety of poetic forms, co-opting the pastoral tradition to argue for belonging to the rural landscapedespite the inheritance of displacement and removal from a country of originLandlock X tries to solve for all of the (adoptees) variables and knows it is an impossible task that the I, you, and we of the poems only approximate.
From The Black Cows in the Foreground
it is unknown
where the bones
of your mother
turned to fragments
none in the painting
of the black cows
so where to grieve
her body
no parcel of land
to plant sorrow
in furrowed rows
the black cows graze
Author: Sarah Audsley
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Texas Review Press
Published: 02/17/2023
Pages: 70
Weight: 1.2lbs
Size: 8.82h x 6.77w x 0.24d
ISBN: 9781680033052
Language: English
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