Deer Hunting She Wants The D Shirt
Originally from Jamaica, Shara McCallum is the author of four previous books of poetry: The Face of Water: New and Selected Poems (Peepal Tree Press, UK, 2011); This Strange Land (Alice James Books, US, 2011), a finalist for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature; Song of Thieves (University of Pittsburgh Press, US, 2003); and The Water Between Us (University of Pittsburgh Press, US, 1999), winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize for Poetry. Her poems have been published in the US, the UK and other parts of Europe, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Israel and have been translated into Spanish, French, Italian, and Romanian. Recognition for her work includes a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress, a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship, a Cave Canem Fellowship, inclusion in the Best American Poetry series, and other awards. Since 2003, McCallum has served as Director of the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University, where she also currently holds the Margaret Hollinshead Ley Professorship in Poetry & Creative Writing.
Deer Hunting She Wants The D Shirt
Tyler Mills: This Strange Land, your third book of poems, is a gorgeous collection that meditates on bodies—of water, of kin, and of land. The Kingston, Jamaica of your childhood comes to life in poems addressed, “Dear History.” A “Miss Sally” speaks throughout these poems as a voice that seems almost mythic in her warnings and explanations. And the figure of the mother recurs through retellings of mythological stories in poems such as “My Mother as Penelope,” “My Mother as Narcissus,” and “My Mother as Persephone.” What inspired you to return to memory in these ways?