water is never still - Scandiffio, JoAnna
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In this hybrid poetic sequence, water is never still, JoAnna Scandiffio narrates the mind of a young girl who grapples with her mother's sudden death, asking, "Do the dead come back like horse flies?" Her grief is jumbled like a sailor's tale as she seeks to reconcile what she learns in school with her grandmother's version of history, her brother's waywardness, and her father's sadness. She questions if Montezuma gave away his kingdom to Cortez, if a sailor's tattoo of a blue forest can save him, and if her grandmother saw Cortez through a shuttered door. As she processes her loss, she learns…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
In this hybrid poetic sequence, water is never still, JoAnna Scandiffio narrates the mind of a young girl who grapples with her mother's sudden death, asking, "Do the dead come back like horse flies?" Her grief is jumbled like a sailor's tale as she seeks to reconcile what she learns in school with her grandmother's version of history, her brother's waywardness, and her father's sadness. She questions if Montezuma gave away his kingdom to Cortez, if a sailor's tattoo of a blue forest can save him, and if her grandmother saw Cortez through a shuttered door. As she processes her loss, she learns how to steal lipstick, cake recipes, discovers how 'boys whistle at what they fear,' and "if you marry an Aztec you inherit sky and earth air comes from laughter fire from falling."
Autorenporträt
Poet Gemologist Appraiser of Estate Jewelry EducatorJoAnna Scandiffio is a scavenger poet, rummaging through art, science, and everyday stuff that happens. She salvages old love letters, leftover dreams, rusty pots and pans to make poems with missing parts. Her poems are night passengers, zookeepers, bullets. Give her a wishbone, and she will set the house on fire.