Cartographies of Home
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Priscilla Long's nimble verse examines the difference between provenance and improvisation in how we grow up-or, to use the language of one Eastern Shore of Maryland family, how we "grow away." This portrait-in-poems' entrance into adulthood is graceful and sonically compelling: "I pull red cellophane, / open the pack, shake one out, / strike a match to flare and whiff of sulfur" (from the poem "Greyhound"). Cartographies of Home is a soulful, erudite, and ultimately playful look at life in...






















