Elegies for the Hot Season
1982
First Published
4.12
Average Rating
71
Number of Pages
Poems transform everyday experiences, fishing, housekeeping, pregnancy, flower transplanting, and a tax collector's visit into a unique vision of life
Avg Rating
4.12
Number of Ratings
17
5 STARS
41%
4 STARS
35%
3 STARS
18%
2 STARS
6%
1 STARS
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Author
Sandra McPherson
Author · 5 books
Sandra McPherson was raised in San Jose, California. She went to college in California, then studied with Elizabeth Bishop at the University of Washington. She writes of her relationships with husband, daughter, parents, teachers, and friends with a sense of both the possibilities and limits of intimacy. Her poems are oblique and often difficult, yet are always firmly anchored in perception and experience, and she weaves vivid images culled from nature into what Contemporary Women Poets contributor David Young characterizes as "rich, complex, and deeply satisfying poems." In collections that include the National Book Award-nominated The Year of Our Birth, At the Grave of Hazel Hall, and Edge Effect: Trails and Portrayals, McPherson has increasingly honed her unsentimental, insightful verse, imbuing it with images reflective of diverse folk arts and refining her expressions of a cultural perspective that is uniquely American.
