Homecoming

About the Book

With a voice both distinctive and universal, a vision both elegiac and, at times, wry, Ann Gearen takes readers into the lived lives of the famous-Elizabeth Bishop, Pablo Neruda-and of the only personally, intimately known-a mother who unexpectedly drowns herself, a desperately longed for Chinese daughter, an eighty-three-year old woman who, with failing memory and lost language, tells her grieving daughter the same story over and over. Gearen, like the Acholi peoples about whom she writes, underscores "how we all/are like the white and the yolk/of a single, fresh-cracked egg."

About the Author

Ann Gearen is a writer and psychotherapist who lives in Oak Park, Illinois. Her work has appeared in Primavera, Mobius, After Hours and River Oak Arts, where her poem Homecoming was a prizewinner. She holds a doctorate in English literature and a masters in social work. She has enjoyed the support of four residencies at the Ragdale Foundation in Lake Forest, Illinois.