Becoming Bone: Poems on the Life of Celia Thaxter

In the long tradition of biography-in-poetry collections, Annie Boutelleas first collection probes the layered life of one of nineteenth-century Americaas most popular poets, who is now almost forgotten. The Celia Thaxter who speaks these poems disturbs the placid myth created around her public persona, and focuses on the fierce mysteries and ironies that frame...