Like Rain Returning Home - Paperback

by Rachel L. Macaulay (Editor), Kathryn Collison (Author)

Be propelled through a collection that questions and celebrates the love affair between a Japanese woman and her American husband as told in lyrical and narrative poems that create an intergenerational dialogue between grandmother and granddaughter. Loosely based on the author's own life and family, this collection explores assimilation, acceptance, loneliness, and dislocation. Imbedding emotion in powerful imagery, resting in "green tea quiet" and "sake-sweet" moments, the contrast of cultures and examination of home form a landscape both familiar and unfamiliar, spanning generations. In her distinctly evocative, clear voice, Collison offers us a glimpse into loss, longing, and connection.

Author Biography

Kathryn Collison earned her BA in creative writing from the University of New Mexico and her MFA in poetry from Eastern Washington University. She has had her work published in New Works Review, The Furnace Review, and The Pedestal Magazine. She currently teaches literature and humanities classes in the University Honors College at the University of New Mexico and creative writing classes online at the University of Phoenix. She has taught poetry workshops in a correctional facility, community college, and high school. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with her husband and their five-year-old daughter.