Synopses & Reviews
Through the persona of Cora Fry, a wife and mother living in a small New Hampshire town, Rosellen Brown explores the ambivalent ties of love, loyalty, marriage, and family in a series of related poems. This volume includes the entire text of
Cora Fry (1977), a kind of dramatic monologue, written in spare, simple lines, which describes the young womans daily life and troubled marriage. A sequel of newer poems,
Cora Frys Pillow Book (1994), confronts the challenges that come with a womans growth toward middle age, reflecting an older Coras place in her family, community, and the larger world.
Review
“Full of humor, truth, anger, and tenderness . . . Rosellen Brown has given us a novel stripped down to essences in this remarkable set of poems, the vivid evocations of a country womans life.” - May Sarton.
About the Author
Rosellen Brown is the author of the novels Before and After, The Autobiography of My Mother, Tender Mercies, Civil Wars, and Half a Heart; the collection of stories Street Games; and the collections of poetry Some Deaths in the Delta, Cora Fry, and Cora Fry's Pillow Book. She lives in Chicago.