Memory of a Girl (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781949344769)

Vendor: Aozora Brockman
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Format: Paperback
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Memory of a Girl

$13.95

Memory of a Girl

$13.95
Format: Paperback
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In the narrative poems of Memory of a Girl, a young poet journeys to Japan to spend a month caring for her beloved grandmother, who is battling dementia. There, she struggles to come to terms with a changed grandmother who tells circular, repetitive stories and places the poet into her past. Watching and listening to her grandmother day and night, the poet grapples with the reality and terror of memory loss -- the loss of identity, and of history -- and fears losing her own precious memories of growing up on her family's organic vegetable farm. The chapbook mixes joy with sorrow and love as it describes a grandmother slowly becoming once more a girl, and a young woman desperately holding on to childhood bliss as she shifts into adulthood.

Author: Aozora Brockman
ISBN-10: 1949344762
ISBN-13: 9781949344769
Publisher: Bull City Press
Language: English
Published: 10/20/2026
Pages: 46
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 8.11h x 5.11w x 0.51d
By Aozora Brockman
By Aozora Brockman
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Aozora Brockman is a poet, writer, and translator whose work has appeared in The Offing, Catapult, and The Margins. She holds a bachelor's degree in creative writing from Northwestern University and a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing (poetry) from the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan, and has been featured in the documentary film Seasons of Change on Henry's Farm. Besides Memory of a Girl, she is the author of the chapbook The Happiness of Dirt. She grew up on her family's organic vegetable farm in central Illinois and now lives near the farm with her husb

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