After June
Charity Gingerich author Michelle Kingdom illustrator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Green Writers Press
Published:5th Oct '19
Should be back in stock very soon
The Hopper Literary Magazine 2018 Poetry Prize Winner
After June is written with a musician’s affinity for and attention to pattern, rooted in the author’s experience as a choral singer since the age of 14. The collection engages complexly with religion, loss, and womanhood. Raised in a Conservative Mennonite community, Gingerich speaks “with an exile’s voice” (Austin Hummel), interrogating the traditions that shaped her with a critical but tender eye. After June grapples with the pain and beauty of living truthfully in a world where the roles we play for others are often in conflict with our own desires. This struggle animates an ambitious first collection, following the writer across the rich landscapes of Ohio and West Virginia, like “an artist, carrying her tools from one job to another” (“Window with Pink Geraniums and Aching Body”), ever searching for the meaning of home, and belonging.
ISBN: 9781733653428
Dimensions: 203mm x 152mm x 5mm
Weight: 127g
100 pages