Title: American Wake
Description: "New from a poet whose astonishing images, emotional honesty, and storytelling power holds a singular clarity of vision. An "American wake" is what the Irish call a farewell party for those emigrating to the United States. A New England writer equally at home in Ireland, Kerrin McCadden explores family, death, grief, apologies, and all manner of departures in second full-length volume of poetry"--
Subjects: American literature