Other Places

Jean Kavanagh's first collection moves between diverse but not incidental locations: Dublin, Clare, Oslo, and the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Kavanagh is not a nomad in the sense of someone wandering aimlessly, but nomadic as in following a fixed pattern of movement. The poet realizes the places she calls home through a chorus of landmarks: personal bonds, memories, photographs and folklore, where magic exists, and where the encounters with others are as important as the ...