{"product_id":"crossing-the-great-divide-9781882280001","title":"Crossing the Great Divide","description":"Author of the recent and critically acclaimed memoir, \u003ci\u003eI Hear Voices, \u003c\/i\u003e Jean Feraca is also an award-winning poet. Her second collection of poems, \u003ci\u003eCrossing the Great Divide, \u003c\/i\u003e has not been widely available until now but forms a fascinating counterpoint to the story of emergence she reveals in her memoir. Brilliant, passionate, sexual, these poems travel into mythic ancestral landscapes in southern Italy and Sicily, on a psychic journey of self-discovery, sometimes luminous, sometimes harrowing, leading ultimately to deliverance, as in the title poem of the collection: \"I shall live out my life rejoicingribboning under the jagged shadow of the hawk. There is no reason for this joyeagle-bald, knifing through me like a canyon. There is nothing in this landscape that defines me.\"\u003cbr\u003e(copyright Jean Feraca. All rights reserved.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJean Feraca is the author of three collections of poetry and the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Award, an Academy of American Poets Award, a Discovery Award from \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, and two Hopwood Awards. Her newest book is \u003ci\u003eI Hear Voices: A Memoir of Love, Death, and the Radio\u003c\/i\u003e. A resident of Madison, Wisconsin, she is the Distinguished Senior Producer with Wisconsin Public Radio, where she is host and executive producer of \u003ci\u003eHere on Earth: Radio without Borders\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50363487027474,"sku":"9781882280001","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a87965e1-f6ae-47c1-9f9c-56ff6faf1aee.jpg?v=1728416312","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/crossing-the-great-divide-9781882280001","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}