The Poetry Of Linda McCarriston

Linda McCarriston’s shocking use of language “speaks back to a culture” (Moyers 271) she believes created and sustained the dogma that led to the violence in her household. In her poems, A Castle In Lynn and To Judge Faolain, Dead Long Enough: A Summons the reader becomes acquainted with this poet’s experiences of her father as he

The entire poem has eight stanza and four lines in each. A very structured poem necessary to create the sense of boundaries and parameters like the ones that boxed in the violence in her household and contained it there. The last line of the first stanza continues into the first line of the second stanza that begins with the word “remembrance”. This word is important, as it tells the reader that the narrator is reaching into her/his darkened past and remembering. Using only coma’s to pause for breath, the narration continues. The poem contains eleven lines before the sentence ends with a firm period in the middle of the second to last line in the third stanza. By the time the reader gets to the end of this long sentence they need to take a breath physically and emotionally.

ever though she is for years a mother

in a sharkpool – no, not “someone,”

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