Self-portrait as Interstate 10 -- Girl, 7, seeking U.S. flight record, dies in crash -- September in Ohio -- A pain, a fencepost, a black-and-white film -- Virginia dare (i) -- Where he lives rhymes with Rome -- Virginia dare (ii) -- The naming of Eve -- Heat -- Matins -- Virginia dare (iii) -- Dedications for a Birmingham clinic -- Two places where danger lives -- Virginia dare (iv) -- Stella Stella -- What the doctors forget to tell you about morphine -- Migration -- What's left -- The gift -- Virginia dare (v) -- The boy who would be Achilles -- Amanita virosa -- Notes for living in NOLA -- Ophelia's technicolor g-string : an urban mythology -- Who what when -- In memory of a girl -- A note on the type.
Summary
Roam explores the loss of a parent to cancer and the resulting uprootedness that loss can create. In searching for a sense of home and belonging, this collection of free verse looks both inward and outward, to landscapes rural and urban, and speaks in haunting and musical lyrics. Unexpected voices emerge from history and myth-those of Joan of Arc, Ophelia, Circe, Daedalus and Icarus, and Achilles' mother, Thetis-and mingle with the author's own voice. From the naming of the first woman, Eve, to the naming of the first European child born in the Americas, Virginia Dare, thes.
