I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl A Memoir
by Groom, KelleEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2012-04-03
Publisher(s): Free Press
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Summary
Exploring the most painful aspects of her addiction and loss, delving deep into her family history to uncover the source, Kelle Groom traces with unflinching clarity and breathtaking grace the complex forces that come together to shape a life, a death, and a literary voice. An unforgettable against-the-odds tale, I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl reveals the mysterious ways human suffering can be redeemed.
Author Biography
Kelle Groom, the author of three poetry collections, has been published in The New Yorker and Ploughshares, among other magazines. Her work was included in The Best American Poetry 2010 and has received special mention in the Pushcart Prize and Best American Nonrequired Reading anthologies. She is one the faculty of the low-residency MFA program at Sierra Nevada College, Lake Tahoe.
Table of Contents
| Evidence of Things Unseen | p. 1 |
| The Boy with His Mother Inside Him | p. 8 |
| Constellation | p. 11 |
| Godzilla | p. 17 |
| Book of Lifesavers | p. 23 |
| The Worst Thing That Can Happen | p. 28 |
| Seven Works of Mercy | p. 35 |
| The Last Time I Saw Her | p. 38 |
| Regency | p. 47 |
| Night Train | p. 53 |
| Gore Street | p. 63 |
| El Paso | p. 73 |
| Space City | p. 80 |
| Weapons Department | p. 84 |
| Sugar Mountain | p. 87 |
| Broadway | p. 97 |
| Mirror | p. 107 |
| Palindrome | p. 114 |
| The Shoe Museum | p. 123 |
| Migration | p. 134 |
| How to Make a Shoe | p. 140 |
| Hotline | p. 145 |
| Arabia | p. 150 |
| Hour of Death | p. 155 |
| 1982 | p. 158 |
| Aortic | p. 163 |
| Shelter | p. 168 |
| Australia | p. 176 |
| Informant | p. 180 |
| Guanyin | p. 185 |
| Radiolarians | p. 213 |
| The Floating Island | p. 225 |
| Notes | p. 233 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 237 |
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