Sister Sorrow - Crumble, Rachel Landrum

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Résumé :
Rachel Landrum Crumble's hard-won collection of faith and doubt Sister Sorrow traces a lifetime of decoding a childhood with a beautiful, artistic, schizophrenic mom, experiencing otherness through international travel, becoming a Yankee transplant to the South, marriage as a white woman in 1981 to a Black man and raising biracial children in Chattanooga, TN in the 80's and 90's. It explores cycles of depression and grief over her mother's suicide, and how, although recursive, grief can also lead to wisdom, and a deepening capacity for joy. Sister Sorrow embraces the awkward and the ridiculous as essential aspects of our humanity.

Biographie:
This is her first collection of poetry. Rachel Landrum Crumble has previously published in Southern Poetry Review, Louisville Review, Reed Magazine, Porter House Review, Typishly, SheilaNaGig, Spoon River Review, Common Ground Review, and others; was a finalist in Writer's Relief's Peter K. Hixson Memorial Award; an earlier iteration of Sister Sorrow was a finalist for Ohioian/ The Journal Poetry Prize, and was also finalist for Blue Light Press Poetry Award. She is a transplanted Yankee who has lived in Chattanooga, TN for 42 years; she attended high school in Columbia, Maryland; attended Covenant College on Lookout Mountain, GA, and graduated from UT at Chattanooga, received her MFA from Vermont College; attended Bread Loaf Writers Conference on a waitership; was a resident at Vermont Studio Center; participated in a Post-Graduate Poetry Manuscript Workshop at Vermont College; has read and discussed her poetry several times on WUTC, a local NPR affiliate; is a founding member of New City Fellowship, one of the first cross cultural churches in Chattanooga; has taught preschool through college in inner city and rural settings including: Covenant College, UT Chattanooga, Chattanooga State, Cleveland State, Lee University, Howard and Brainerd High Schools in Chattanooga; and has taught at Ridgeland High School just over the state line in Northwest Georgia for nearly 16 years; has participated in Diane Frank's online Advanced Poetry Workshops, and is a member of Chattanooga Writers Guild and Helga Kidder's Poetry Workshop; and Plug Poetry with Christian Collier.