The award winning author's fourth book of poetry finds her meditating on the heroic journey of famed polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912). The poems are adapted from Scott's journals of the doomed Terra Nova expedition of 1910-13. Through "disciplined, beautifully descriptive verse" Linda Pastan], Roberts creates an "epic that chronicles an expedition to the South Pole" Francisco Arag n] which "has seldom been told with such formal control,...
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