The Distaff Side by Mary Leader american poetry Searcaigh is always honest

Searcaigh is always honest

Her work explores her dual-nationality within her identity and her search for acceptance within a feeling and state of ‘in-betweenness’

Carolyn Forché is one of America’s most important contemporary poets – renowned as a ‘poet of witness’ – as well as an indefatigable human rights activist

This is a book of griefs and resurrection

An immersive collection of poetry to open your world

The Distaff Side by Mary Leader american poetry Searcaigh is always honestOklahoman Mary Leader, after years as a lawyer, published her first book of poems at age forty nine. That was Red Signature, which having been selected by Deborah Digges for the National Poetry Series was published by Graywolf Press. Besides the red signature "Mary Leader" on the title page, the book made way for signatures of other Oklahomans, such as Clara C. Hake, a woman imagined within a list of lowly items and homely documents, inventoried in