Gray Matter

by Sara Michas-Martin

Book Overview

Simultaneously restless and enchanted, the primary speaker of these poems is a tourist in the truest sense. She finds herself on trains, in the backcountry of the American wilderness, in crowded European hostels, and in Vietnam, eating a partially fertilized egg. All the while, Michigan, the landscape of childhood, serves as
her reference point ("A rustic sort of place I can't back away from"). Inspired by the Buddhist concept of anatta, or...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823257789
• ISBN13: 9780823257782
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.0" x 9.1"