Shaw Anne Paperback by Undertow

Product Details

• Publisher: Persea Books (2007-11-27)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 80 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780892553389
• Item Weight: 136.08 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

This impressive debut is propelled by wanderlust, its music derived from the rumble of freight trains and the heave of ferries through literal and imaginative waterways. Whether set in Maine or in Arizona, in Ecuador or in Thailand, in waking or in dreaming, each poem resounds with the beauty and remoteness of its locality. Re-imaginings of travelogues by some notable explorers and naturalists, including Sir Walter Raleigh and Georg Eberhard Rumphius, underscore the collection's restless yearning for motion. Undertow marks the emergence of a distinctive new voice.

About the Author

Anne Shaw earned her B.A. from Yale University and her M.F.A. degree in creative writing from George Mason University. Her poems have appeared in a number of journals, including New American Writing, Hayden's Ferry Review, and Phoebe. She lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.