num_pages: 68
description: "Gabrielle Calvocoressi is a wonderfully talented poet."―Eavan Boland Whether in the title poem, spoken by those who lived longingly and vicariously through the famous missing aviator, or in "Circus Fire, 1944," which intimately recounts a haunting New England tragedy, Gabrielle Calvocoressi uses her prodigious gifts of imagination and empathy to give voice to the hope and heartbreak of small-town America. In painstaking, vernacular verse, she conveys the ambitions and failings of a distraught populacein the edgy jazz portrait, "Suite Billy Strayhorn," for example, or the enthralling, interwoven sequence, "At the Adult Drive-In," which conveys, at once, a personal and communal corruption. Penetrating and compassionate, The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart portrays, with a storyteller's arc, the troubled landscape of the left-behind.
language: English
title: The last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart: Poems
titlecomplete: The last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart: Poems
genres: Poetry, Queer
ratings_count: 339
publisher: Persea