Description
A collection of finely crafted and insightful poems, focusing so intently on the personal that it becomes all-encompassing, chronicles the wide-ranging emotions and desperate wisdom gained from a girlhood in the New Jersey of the 1950s. Reprint.
Read More
Shore, whose previous book, Music Minus One, was a finalist for the National Book Award, here reflects on incidents and domestic tableaux concerning the desperate, comical, elusive, simple, or complicated kinds of happiness indigenous to her 1950s New Jersey neighborhood. At once universal and personal, Shore's poems are uncanny autobiographical duets for past and present, childhood and adulthood, daughter and mother. Like an album of black-and-white photos come to life, Happy Family offers an honest poetry that dignifies memory through detail.
Read Less