Joel Peckham

Broschiertes Buch

Resisting Elegy

On Grief and Recovery

Beschreibung

Explores the transformative power of emotional and physical pain from the vantage point of a husband and parent who lost his wife and a child in an accident that left him in chronic distress. Along the way, he ?lls a need for a brutally honest literary examination of not only grief and suffering, but also of recovery.

Autor

Joel Peckham is a poet, essayist, and literary scholar. He has published three other collections of poetry: The Heat of What Comes and Nightwalking from Pecan Grove Press and Movers and Shakers from Pudding House. His poems have appeared in many literary journals, including The Beloit Poetry Journal, Black Warrior Review, Prairie Schooner, Rattle and The Southern Review. In 2012, his memoir, Resisting Elegy, appeared from Academy Chicago Publishers. Dean Monti is the author of several plays and short stories, and has had his work staged in Chicago and Norfolk, Virginia. As a journalist for a large trade magazine, he has written many feature articles, and has read his work on WBEZ, National Public Radio, in Chicago.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chicago Review Press
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 180mm x 130mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 227g
• ISBN-13: 9780897336253
• ISBN-10: 0897336259
• Artikelnr.: 33774087