TY  - GEN
T1  - Back to the light : poems
A1  - Lyon, George Ella, 1949-
LA  - English
PP  - Lexington, Kentucky
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1238162356
AB  - "Acclaimed poet George Ella Lyon returns with a brilliant new collection that traces the arc of a woman's life from girlhood to mature womanhood. In answer to the first poem, "Little Girl Who Knows Too Much," Lyon embarks on a journey from a child who was silenced to "Some Big Loud Woman" who claims the right to a voice. Along the way she meets allies and guides including Dickinson, Woolf, Mary Travers, Grace Paley, and the giver of dreams. As sailors once navigated by the stars, so Lyon navigates by these luminaries. They are not distant, though. Their light is always near. Alternately witty, tender, shocking, and visionary, Back to the Light reveals the reunion of body and spirit, truth and story. In the process, it demonstrates the power of poetry to liberate and to heal"--
CN  - PS3562.Y4454 B33 2021
SN  - 9780813181165
SN  - 081318116X
SN  - 9780813181172
SN  - 0813181178
SN  - 0813181151
SN  - 9780813181158
KW  - American poetry : 21st century.
KW  - POETRY : Subjects & Themes : General.
KW  - American poetry
KW  - 2000-2099
KW  - Poetry
KW  - poetry.
KW  - Poetry.
KW  - Poésie.
ER  -