Undershore examines the speaker's ongoing grief following the loss of her mother to breast cancer against the backdrop of a sustained engagement with the natural world. The manuscript is structured around a series of "visitations"--imagined encounters with the poet's mother after her death. The title "Undershore" is meant to describe the location of these visitations--littoral, submerged, oneiric--a space that is interior to the self...
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