The Cranberry Island Series (Paperback)
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Poetry. Donald Wellman proposes THE CRANBERRY ISLAND SERIES as a work of 'autoethnography, ' incorporating poetry, translation, autobiography, family history, and geography--all focused on the Cranberry Islands in the Gulf of Maine. Like a hardy tree stretching its roots into crannies of wind-swept stone, Wellman burrows into people and places of his locale and their effects upon his own life. The interweaving of his long family history--both its European and Native American strands--with the actual landscape of the islands and the waters around them produces a complex, compelling work that extends the method of Charles Olson's Maximus Poems. Wellman's insistence on the virtues of hybridity, impurity, and the vernacular contributes to the creation of a resilient template for the emergent identities of the twenty-first century.--Stephen Fredman.
