Diane Gilliam

Dreadful Wind & Rain (eBook, ePUB)

A Lyric Narrative

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the award-winning author of Kettle Bottom, a sequence of fairytale-inspired narrative poems concerning the life of a troubled girl. Once upon a time, there lived a girl whose story was not her own . . . So the story goes: Neglected and abused by her family, eclipsed by her elder and more beautiful sister, a young girl longs for happily-ever-after, for something, someone to rescue her. She is soon swept away into the next chapter of her life: marriage-a promising world mirroring Old Testament stories and fairy tale traditions. But loving just anyone and living the age-old "ever-after" narrative, as it turns out, fails to bring true happiness after all. Dragged down by a destructive marriage, her sister's continued manipulations, and the growing weight of roles and expectations created by others at her back, she must choose between continuing in her familiar, complacent life, or boldly breaking free-and finally making her own way. Named for an Appalachian murder ballad in which a girl is drowned by her sister, this lyrical fairy tale unseats expectations for what it means to live a fairy tale life, revealing the powerful force that comes from stripping away the traditional roles and beginning to write a story all your own. Praise for Dreadful Wind & Rain "Ache and lift and veracity tambourine through these lines and stanzas. This . . . collection exults its power inside our ears and through our hearts in a rich, stinging, marvelous way . . . I believe that Diane Gilliam is incorruptible as a poet." -Nikky Finney, poet, winner of the National Book Award for Head Off & Split

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Red Hen Press
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781597095747
• Artikelnr.: 52989349

Autorenporträt

Diane Gilliam is the author of three previous collections of poetry: Kettle Bottom (2004), One of Everything (2003), and Recipe for Blackberry Cake (chapbook, 1999). She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College and a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from Ohio State University. She has received an Individual Artist Grant from the Ohio Arts Council, the Chaffi n Award for Appalachian Writing, Th e Ohioana Library Association Poetry Book of the Year Award, and a Pushcart Prize. She is the most recent recipient of the $50,000 Gift of Freedom literary award and lives in Akron, OH.