The Cranberry Island Series

By Donald Wellman

Poetry. "Donald Wellman proposes THE CRANBERRY ISLAND SERIES as a work of 'autoethnography, ' incorporating poetry, translation, autobiography, family history, and geography all focused on the Cranberry Islands in the Gulf of Maine. Like a hardy tree stretching its roots into crannies of wind-swept stone, Wellman burrows into people and places of his locale and their effects upon his own life. The interweaving of his long family history both its European and Native American strands with the actual landscape of the islands and the waters around them produces a complex, compelling work that extends the method of Charles Olson's Maximus Poems. Wellman's insistence on the virtues of hybridity, impurity, and the vernacular contributes to the creation of a resilient template for the emergent identities of the twenty-first century." Stephen Fredman"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 193367587X
• ISBN13: 9781933675879
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: DOS Madres Press
• Length: 106 Pages