The Return of the Native

✍ Scribed by Kate Colby

• Book ID: 100435862
• Publisher: Ugly Duckling Presse
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 685 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781933254777

✦ Synopsis

Poetry. The Return of the Native is both a pastoral and its counterpoint. A series of 23 poems, it enacts a struggle between the romance of recorded history and the social conditions of the global present. Topical threads include New England colonial, American folk, and Native American history; the construction of the Quabbin Reservoir in central Massachusetts; and the specious gloss of American "road" culture, all filtered through a fine mesh of Thomas Hardy.