The Way Home

In this collection, Millicent Graham focuses on memory and the idea of home, while questioning the very nature of home as both a physical and emotional space. There are comforts—the landscape, the vegetation, the food, the playground, the hand of parents, the romantic escapades—and there are the disquiets—the bullying, the violence, the fearfulness, the failure of memory, the losses. In these very intimate poems, Graham marks out a distinct poetic territory for herself with an immediately r...