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Synopsis
Author of the recent and critically acclaimed memoir,
I Hear Voices, Jean Feraca is also an award-winning poet. Her second collection of poems,
Crossing the Great Divide, has not been widely available until now but forms a fascinating counterpoint to the story of emergence she reveals in her memoir. Brilliant, passionate, sexual, these poems travel into mythic ancestral landscapes in southern Italy and Sicily, on a psychic journey of self-discovery, sometimes luminous, sometimes harrowing, leading ultimately to deliverance, as in the title poem of the collection: “I shall live out my life rejoicingribboning under the jagged shadow of the hawk. There is no reason for this joyeagle-bald, knifing through me like a canyon. There is nothing in this landscape that defines me.”
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About the Author
“One of the most promising poets of her generation.”—Grace Schulman, poetry editor of The Nation