Tiller North takes us behind the walls of a fishing village in coastal Maine. With her insider's voice, Rosa Lane breaks the code of silence: secrets embedded within class, sexual identity, familial relationships, death, and rebirth. "I once said I would not look back," Lane tells us toward the end of Tiller North, but how grateful we are that she has. We become immersed as she opens a world to us from the sound of the "rusty jaw" of the mailbox to a ghost horse in a collapsed barn, boldly rich.
- Award(s)
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2016 Foreword INDIES Finalist, 2016 New England Book Festival Honorable Mention, and Winner of the 11th Annual 2017 National Indie Excellence Award in the Poetry Category
- Book Website
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http://www.rosalane.com/Tiller-North.html
- Contributor(s)
- Rosa Lane
- Publisher
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Sixteen Rivers Press
- ISBN-13
- 978-1-939639-09-7
- Publication Date
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Apr 2, 2016
- Pages
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80
- Price
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$16.00
- Tags
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#poetry
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Our Review
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The tough, rolled-up shirtsleeves, diesel fumes, and rural sensibility of Maine’s fishing villages separate Rosa Lane’s poetry from other super-talented, MFA-bearing poets from Sarah Lawrence College. No, effete is not a word to describe her. A practicing architect, Lane’s work has appeared...
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