Justin Sherwood
Justin Sherwood is the author of the chapbook Low Theory (Seven Kitchens Press).
In Conversation
LAURA CRONK with Justin Sherwood
As I began to read Ghost Hour, taking pains to not over-identify with the poet on the page, who is and isnt Cronk, I was thwarted at every turn. The book turns out to be, in large part, about the pull of identification. In the two poems called Ancestry (the second of which is published below), and more obliquely in other poems, Cronk considers her multiple identities, and how they position her in the worldas a poet, a mother, a white woman.
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