{"product_id":"midden-paperback-softback-9780823280988","title":"Midden (Paperback \/ softback) 9780823280988","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMidden\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJulia Bouwsma (Author), Afaa M. Weaver (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823280988\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 4 September 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e96 pages, 4\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 20.3 x 1.2 cm, 0.182 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE MAINE LITERARY AWARD FOR POETRY!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE JULIE SUK AWARD!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eSELECTED AS ONE OF NPR'S 2018 GREAT READS!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eONE OF BOOK RIOT'S 50 MUST READ POETRY COLLECTIONS OF 2019!\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 1912 the State of Maine forcibly evicted an interracial community of roughly forty-five people from Malaga Island, a small island off the coast of Phippsburg, Maine. Though Malaga had been their home for generations, nine residents (including the entire Marks family) were committed to the Maine School for the Feeble Minded in Pownal, Maine. The others struggled to find homes on other islands or on the mainland, where they were often unwelcome. The Malaga school was dismantled and rebuilt as a chapel on another island. Seventeen graves were exhumed from the Malaga cemetery, consolidated into five caskets, and reburied at the Maine School for the Feeble Minded. Just one year after the start of the eviction proceedings, the Malaga community was erased.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eMidden \u003c\/i\u003econfronts the events and over one hundred years of silence that surround this shameful incident in Maine's history. Utilizing a wide range of poetic styles—epistolary poems to ghosts, persona poems, erasure poems, interior poems, interviews and instructions, poems framed both in the past and in the present—\u003ci\u003eMidden\u003c\/i\u003e delves into the vital connections between land, identity, and narrative and asks how we can heal the generations and legacies of damage that result when all three of these are deliberately taken in an attempt to rob people of their very humanity. The book is a poetic excavation of loss, a carving of the landscape of memory, and a reckoning with and tribute to the ghosts we carry and step over, often without our even knowing it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eForeword\u003c\/b\u003e: Midden, When Glory Comes\u003cb\u003e xiii\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I Walk My Road at Dusk \u003cb\u003e1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Way Home\u003cb\u003e 3\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dear ghosts, I pick the list \u003cb\u003e5\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Story of Fire \u003cb\u003e6\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Their Objects \u003cb\u003e7\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Shipwreck at New Meadows\u003cb\u003e 8\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bas-Relief: Jake Marks \u003cb\u003e9\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dear ghosts, in winter my camp on the hill becomes \u003cb\u003e10\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Interview with the Dead \u003cb\u003e11\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dear ghosts, because you tell me to, I begin again \u003cb\u003e16\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e So Many Things \u003cb\u003e17\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Tray of Spades \u003cb\u003e18\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dear ghosts, my neighbor catches you with her camera \u003cb\u003e21\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Schoolteacher Answers the Call \u003cb\u003e22\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sestina Fragments: Our Teacher Prays for Bread \u003cb\u003e25\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dear ghosts, I wake wishing my body \u003cb\u003e27\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e No Man's Land \u003cb\u003e28\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Annie in the Boat \u003cb\u003e30\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dear ghosts, how can we stop the sunlight spinning the story \u003cb\u003e31\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e John Eason Stops Preaching \u003cb\u003e32\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This Is Our Home Now \u003cb\u003e33\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sucker Fish \u003cb\u003e35\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What William Marks Knows, Age 3 \u003cb\u003e36\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dear ghosts, with a red pencil I draw a map. \u003cb\u003e37\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Each Morning Drowns in Open Air \u003cb\u003e38\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Procedure \u003cb\u003e39\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Upon Opening Another Folded Day \u003cb\u003e40\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Feeble-Minded \u003cb\u003e41\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dear ghosts, because you are dead and restless \u003cb\u003e42\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lottie Marks Dreams Escape \u003cb\u003e43\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dear ghosts, there was a man who lived here \u003cb\u003e44\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lottie Marks on Silence \u003cb\u003e45\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Agent Pease's Defense \u003cb\u003e46\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Midden \u003cb\u003e48\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dear ghosts, when I said all I ever wanted was land \u003cb\u003e49\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Yellow Surprise \u003cb\u003e50\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e How to Build a Houseboat \u003cb\u003e51\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Shed Night \u003cb\u003e52\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Potter's Field \u003cb\u003e53\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dear ghosts, you say all our bones are made of paper \u003cb\u003e54\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Paddling the Storm \u003cb\u003e55\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Descendant's Riddle \u003cb\u003e56\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Untold \u003cb\u003e57\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dear ghosts, this land harvests the body to rubble. \u003cb\u003e58\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Erasure \u003cb\u003e59\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Saudade \u003cb\u003e61\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Final Invocation for Ghosts \u003cb\u003e62\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAfterword 65\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eNotes 69\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAcknowledgments 73\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580329914648,"sku":"9780823280988","price":18.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/midden-paperback-softback-9780823280988","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}