Petition

by Joyce Peseroff

From privilege at a gas station to fraud in a memorial grove, Joyce Peseroff follows the faults of indifference and division that crack our impulses toward mercy and love. She nests fragmented tales of the overheard and overlooked--lonely widowers, a lost hiker, predatory trees, an angry jury--in poems that bring a formal restlessness to common speech. With wit and compassion, Petition renders the tense joys and vivid griefs of mortal and moral...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887486614
• ISBN13: 9780887486616
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.3"