The riddle song & other rememberings
By: Rebecca McClanahan.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Athens, Ga
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: McClanahan, Rebecca -- Family.; Poets, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships.; Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: Riddle song and other rememberings
Description: "In this ensemble of beautifully personal, interrelated essays, writer and poet Rebecca McClanahan weaves together threads of stories and common experiences to create a meditation on family life. She explores the familiar rituals, the shared dreams, and the guarded secrets that tie family together as she unravels the mysteries behind familial relationships. Throughout, McClanahan seeks to identify what it means to be an individual within the context of kinship and unexpected connections."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: aunt 1; title: the uncles 10; title: the riddle song: a twelve part lullaby 18; title: the cloud's immaculate folds 56; title: dependent 64; title: earth, air, fire, and father 80; title: hatching 92; title: life and death, yes and no,; title: and other mysteries in mansfield, ohio 99; title: the weather 117; title: with my father in space-time 127; title: two autumns, one story 141; title: the other mother 149; title: good-bye to all this 166.