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Blood Memory Paperback - 2016

by Colleen McElroy


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Blood Memory, Colleen J. McElroy's collection of narrative poetry, emerges from deep seated memories with enormous emotion. Through the rhythms and musicality unique to McElroy's voice, it portrays an extended family, a complex culture spanning several decades, multiple victories and failures, and a single brilliant soul that frames the poems. Dedicated to McElroy's mother, the book is universal in its scope, inescapable in its earthy particularity. McElroy writes, "I am the last female of a family/ of women who wove the fabric/ of stories into doilies and slip covers.../" Blood Memory offers consummate storytelling and unforgettable poetry capturing a place and time gone forever. And as an evolving history, the poetry has a cinematic quality, large and intimate and at the same time, characters utterly vivid.

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  • Title Blood Memory
  • Author Colleen McElroy
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition.
  • Pages 128
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press, USA
  • Date 2016-03
  • ISBN 9780822964087 / 0822964082
  • Weight 0.43 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.4 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.02 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Poetry, American poetry
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2020275631
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54

About the author

Colleen J. McElroy is professor emeritus of English and creative writing at the University of Washington. She is the former editor in chief of the literary magazine Seattle Review and has published numerous poetry collections, most recently Here I Throw Down My Heart. Her latest collections of creative nonfiction include A Long Way from St. Louie and Over the Lip of the World: Among the Storytellers of Madagascar. She has received a PEN/Oakland National Literary Award, the Before Columbus American Book Award, two Fulbright Research Fellowships, two NEA Fellowships (in both fiction and poetry), a DuPont Visiting Scholar Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Fellowship.
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USA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. First Edition. Paperback. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. First Edition. Trade Paperback As New. In shrink wrap. A collection of narrative poetry, a testimony to family, as she writed to preserve a family against the onslaught of time with details of a particular African-American family in the 20th Century heartland. 128 pages. 6 x 9 inches. University of Pittsburgh Press, USA
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