Hollerin from This Shack - Softcover

Ocasio, Grace C

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0981274412 ISBN 13: 9780981274416

Publisher: Ahadada Books, 2009

Synopsis

Poetry. The poems in Grace Ocasio's chapbook HOLLERIN FROM THIS SHACK call us, challenge us to assess our lives. Her speaker trains her eye on urban and suburban landscapes. In many of the poems, she urges us to observe our daily rites: how we behave at the grocery store or mall, how we treat the opposite sex, and how we view our position to nature. We see ourselves in these poems and we cringe: few heroes exist, and the ones who do exist--real-life figures like Dr. King and Mother Hale--appear because of their referential or historical import. If we are disturbed by these poems we should be. Ocasio's vision is troubling, to say the least.

About this title

About the Author:

Grace Ocasio is a member of the North Carolina Writers' Network, the North Carolina Poetry Society, and the Carolina African American Writers' Collective. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her husband, Edwin. She was born in New York City and raised in Hartsdale and White Plains, New York. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and an MA in English from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Recently, she completed a residency at the Soul Mountain Retreat in East Haddam, Connecticut. Beside writing poetry, she contributes reviews of literary journals to the web site The Review, Review.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ahadada Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0981274412
• ISBN 13: 9780981274416
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 30