The American Poet Who Went Home Again
Subtitle: A Mosaic of My Soul at Work
Edition: Second
Publisher: Black Skylark Singing Press/Lulu
Published: United States
Place of publication: Raleigh, NC, United States, and Savannah, GA
Format: Trade
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Memoir
Genres: Creative Nonfiction
Description: Just like modern literary life, THE AMERICAN POET WHO WENT HOME AGAIN expands beyond the safety of pages bound by predictability to explore and often confirm exciting creative possibilities. A shimmering collage of memoir, creative nonfiction, literary journalism, and dizzying flights into poetic observation, this is the amazing story of one writer’s rediscovery of his family, his hometown of Savannah, Georgia, and himself.
Notes: The American Poet Who Went Home Again is a book of creative nonfiction that blends memoir, literary journalism, history, and biography to tell the story of one writer’s rediscovery of his family, his hometown of Savannah, Georgia, and himself. It is composed of four sections containing collectively 19 chapters and 3 introductory poems for a total of 73,756 words.