Lo

By Melissa Crowe

Book Overview

Lo maps the deprivation and richness of a rural girlhood and offers an intimate portrait of the woman--tender, hungry, hopeful--who manages to emerge. In a series of lyric odes and elegies, Lo explores the notion that we can be partially constituted by lack--poverty, neglect, isolation. The child in the book's early sections is beloved and lonely, cherished and abused, lucky and imperiled, and by leaning into this complexity the poems render a tentative and shimmering space sometimes occluded, the space occupied by a girl coming to find herself and the world beautiful, even as that world harms her.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609388992
• ISBN13: 9781609388997
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.8"