Dear outsiders /

"Dear Outsiders explores how we are part of and stranger to our environments and to our families and how identities form by where and who we come from. Told through two siblings' perspectives of the loss of their parents, the book is a map of isolation, longing, and what it means to be des...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sadre-Orafai, Jenny (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Akron, Ohio : The University of Akron Press, 2023.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Akron series in poetry.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Topographies
  • Beginnings of Nature
  • When We Are So Young
  • Fortune Fish
  • Occupation Interview
  • Scale & Embodiment
  • Field Test
  • Glory Pact
  • Tragedy Lesson
  • Singing School
  • Low Recitation
  • Lost & Found
  • Decoys
  • Someone Yelled Fire
  • Heard Said
  • Souvenirs for Locals
  • Anchor Bend
  • Casting
  • Magic Slate
  • Half a Parade
  • Stacks
  • No Wake Zone
  • True/False
  • The Way Home
  • Trauma Management
  • Locals
  • Divining
  • Boat Call
  • Affirmations
  • Because If Someone Heard Us
  • Forgiveness Toll
  • One More Origin Story
  • Land Stories
  • At Our Lessons We're Given a Map
  • Factors Influencing Life
  • Lessons for Waywards
  • A Field, A Flood
  • Double-Face Mirror
  • In Our Awful Sweet Voice
  • Levels of Force
  • Learning Weather
  • Dear Outsiders
  • The Swap
  • Signs of Water
  • Pencils Down
  • Healing Response
  • The Start of the Thread
  • Here, in the Summer
  • Their Eyes Glassed & Curious
  • Making More of Ourselves
  • Growing Our Own Doctor
  • Pilot Plants
  • Throw Ring
  • Levels of Force
  • There's a Gap in the Land
  • Root Division
  • Outlines
  • In Case of Abduction
  • An Emotional Memory
  • Land Survey
  • Made in the Woods
  • Send a Revival
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Author