{"product_id":"penelope-penelope-s-schott-9780813016399","title":"Penelope: The Story of the Half-Scalped Woman--A Narrative Poem","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The poet's journey into the past and another culture, fired by eponymous inspiration, leads to discoveries, a new appreciation of lost moments. To bridge three centuries and create a verbal portrait though a picture is lacking is quite an achievement. Naturally, this effort will be compared to John Berryman's great poem about Anne Bradstreet, but to no harm.\"--David Ray\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In this fascinating sequence Penelope Scambly Schott poignantly re-imagines a devastating story in language that brings together the sensibilities of centuries distant in time but not, at their most intimate, in feeling. She invokes her namesake with urgency and tact, a remarkable combination.\"--Rosellen Brown\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis brilliant tour-de-force narrates the life of a woman shipwrecked in the 1640s on the shores of modern-day New Jersey, axed in the belly, half-scalped and left for dead by the Lenape Indians, then nursed back to health by them and taken into the tribe. And that's only the beginning. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Penelope Scambly Schott has carefully researched the facts and woven them into a poetic page-turner. She cites her sources, provides a glossary and, best of all, indicates what is fact and what is fiction. Her technique is well chosen: the interior monologues, mostly of the heroine, Penelope Kent van Princis Stout, and, in a few poems, those of her namesake, the author. A more distant Penelope, the wife of Odysseus, is also invoked. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The poems take us directly into the mind and heart of a strong woman, who is extraordinary partly because she thinks she is ordinary. With craftsmanship and feeling, Schott has limned unforgettable characters whose lives transcend the mostly ignoble history of settler-Native American relations.\u003cp\u003ePenelope Scambly Schott is the author of three previous collections of poems, most recently \u003ci\u003eThe Perfect Mother\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Violet Reed Haas Prize for Poetry. She has also been awarded four fellowships by the New Jersey Council on the Arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Penelope Scambly Schott\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813016398\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813016399\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Florida\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/17\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.39h x 5.49w x 0.26d","brand":"Penelope Scambly Schott","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926377038079,"sku":"9780813016399","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_236c8ee7-94c8-4401-8454-e297ac1695df.jpg?v=1681082738","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/penelope-penelope-s-schott-9780813016399","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}