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Hard Country

First published by West End Press in 1982, this book-length poem about a journey across America has been out of print for a decade but has maintained its underground reputation as a major response to the male epic consciousness of twentieth-century American poetry.

"In this political geography of the continent's body, the land is corporeal, erotic and ever-present... Doubiago's imagination is always unified and political... Sharon Doubiago is 'a complex of occasions, ' a brilliant response to Whitman, an American poet, free, spiritual and gifted." — Carolyn Forch�

"A unique search for the meaning of personal and national history, narrated by a woman seeking her own liberation and fulfillment through struggle against the reactionary mores and politics of her time." — Thomas McGrath

"Sharon Doubiago fearlessly enters the labyrinth of our history, our search and danger as woman as human as deep American wanderer... It is a long saga, a woman's history and a history of us all." — Meridel Le Sueur

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 288
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780931122941
  • Genres
  • poetry
  • Release date
  • 1999