The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart: Poems, Paperback

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Whether in the title poem, spoken by those who lived longingly and vicariously through the famous missing aviator, or in ""Circus Fire, 1944,"" which intimately recounts a haunting New England tragedy, Gabrielle Calvocoressi uses her prodigious gifts of imagination and empathy to give voice to the hope and heartbreak of small-town America. In painstaking, vernacular verse, she conveys the ambitions and failings of a distraught populacein the edgy jazz portrait, ""Suite Billy Strayhorn,"" for example, or the enthralling, interwoven sequence, ""At the Adult Drive-In,"" which conveys, at once, a personal and communal corruption. Penetrating and compassionate, ""The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart"" portrays, with a storyteller's arc, the troubled landscape of the left-behind.