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Katie Bickham poetr y "How much does place affect the people we become? And not just the place as it is now, but the history of the place? Do buildings and walls remember, and if so, do they speak? And if so, are we listening? These poems are taken from a collection called The Belle Mar. The Belle Mar is a fictional plantation in South Louisiana (loosely based on a real one called the Belle Rive). Each poem in the work takes place in a different room in the house in a different year. "All my life I have felt stretched between a deep love of my home and something very near disgust for it. Am I who I am because of Louisiana's grim history or in spite of it? These poems try to `squeeze the universe into a ball' (or a house), with the house itself bearing witness to the ugliness, the beauty, the hatred of others, the hatred of self and the ghosts that haunt its own walls. If we think of our own hearts as having many chambers, many rooms, which are the ones we keep locked? Which are the ones we, ourselves, are locked
The Missouri Review – University of Missouri
Published: May 1, 2013
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