Description: In the winner of the 1999 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, Shara McCallum presents a poetic examination of cultural fragmentation, and the struggle of those in exile to reconcile the disparate and often conflicting influences of the homeland and the adopted country.
Review Quotes: From the deep blue waters of memory, heritage, and invention, Shara McCallum's poems sing an innovative music that is at once mysterious and utterly familiar, fresh and wise, always lyrical. Welcome, welcome, these new poems, and this new poet.-- "Elizabeth Alexander, author of Body of Life, The Venus Hottentot, and Diva Studies"