This Strange Land [With CD (Audio)]

by Shara McCallum (Author)

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.

Author Biography

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.