In Every Seam

By Allison Joseph

In Every Seam is the third book of poems from Allison Joseph, whose previous collections are What Keeps Us Here and Soul Train. Joseph's poems are vivid recreations of a city girlhood, one full of energy and vitality, sometimes even brutality. Her poems recall all the wonders and terrors of neighborhood bullies, school braggarts, demanding teachers and wary students. Her poems pulse with the rhythms of childhood games and taunts, the song-stories of the streets. These poems document the difficult, sometimes embarrassing, sometimes hilarious passage from girl to woman.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822956411
• ISBN13: 9780822956419
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Narrative verse at its finest

In IN EVERY SEAM Allison Joseph conveys a narrative voice that is distinct. Her poems give the reader the sense of experience as it happened. IN EVERY SEAM is one of those rare volumes that make readers feel better in tune with the world around them, a world that, though possibly far different from their own, becomes more and more their own as each poem is digested.