The Mother on the Other Side of the World: Poems

by James Baker Hall

In his fifth book of poems, The Mother on the Other Side of the World, James Baker Hall revisits his dark childhood with a spiritual maturity earned of lifelong struggle with the forces of silence, secrecy, deception, and hiding. Without the usual linear guideposts and cathartic emotional epiphanies we've come to expect from contemporary poetry, he reveals the dangerous and strange aspects of family intimacies that are both universal and taboo...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1889330310
• ISBN13: 9781889330310
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Sarabande Books
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"