Crève Coeur: 15 poems

by J. Richard Osborn

Overview

Twelve miles west of St. Louis, Missouri, there's a lake and a suburb called Crève Coeur. (Back there they pronounce it "creev coor".) In French, crève coeur means a painful deception, or, more literally, heart break. Crève Coeur Lake, near St. Louis, is shaped like a broken heart, and the story is that an Indian princess threw herself off the cliffs into it and drowned, after an affair with a Frenchman. I was in that area recently on business, and this is what happened to me ...

Product Details

BN ID:	2940185889671
Publisher:	James Richard Osborn
Publication date:	08/18/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	342 KB

About the Author

J.Richard Osborn (R.O. Hood) lives in Oakland, California. His fiction has appeared in the New England Review and the Yale Literary Magazine. His poetry has been published in a variety of small magazines and in a chapbook collection, Crève Coeur. For more, see jrichardosborn.com.