And There Was Evening and There Was Morning: Essays on Illness, Loss, and Love - Couverture souple

Smith, Dr Mike

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0998801410 ISBN 13 : 9780998801414

Editeur : Wtaw Press, 2017

Synopsis

A moving nonfiction debut by Mississippi Delta poet Mike Smith, this memoir-in-essays, AND THERE WAS EVENING AND THERE WAS MORNING: ESSAYS ON ILLNESS, LOSS, AND LOVE, tracks the loss of Smith's first wife to cancer after the birth of the second child, offering a portrait of marriage, family, and tragedy. In honest, and at times darkly comic terms, Smith documents the strange set of coincidences between his first wife's illness and his stepdaughter's similar battle the year his second marriage began, and examines blended families, remarriage, helping children find ways to cope with the loss of a parent, and the influence of spirituality upon loss.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Born in the mountains of West Virginia and raised in Greensboro, North Carolina, Mike Smith graduated from the University of North Carolina, one semester after proposing to his first wife, Emily. They married the next year, after he received his MA from Hollins College, and, one year after that, he followed her to the University of Notre Dame, where she worked toward her PhD in Theology and he pursued his MFA in poetry. He has published three collections of poetry, including BYRON AND BAGHDAD and MULTIVERSE, a collection of two anagrammatic cycles, and his translation of the first part of Goethe's FAUST was published by Shearsman Books in 2012. He is co-editor of the anthology, Contemporary Chinese Short-Short Stories: A Parallel Text, published by Columbia University Press. Recently, the critic Robert Archambeau has called Mike the American poet of my generation most clearly writing in a Byronic mode. For the last seven years, he has lived with his second wife Jennifer, their five children, deep in the Mississippi Delta. By day, he is an associate professor of English and directs the Honors Program at Delta State University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wtaw Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0998801410
• ISBN 13: 9780998801414
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 145
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