American Retrospective : Poems 1961-2016

At the age of 22, Eleanor Rimoldi left New York to begin a long journey to the other side of the world. Sitting on the train to San Francisco, she began the first poem in this collection: a haunting farewell to the country of her birth. Over the next 57 years, inAmerica and New Zealand, through migration, marriage and separation, motherhood and career, Rimoldi has continued to write. With a distinctive, precise and powerful voice, her poems burrow deep into love and grief and the nature of home. This first comprehensive selection of Eleanor Rimoldi's poetry collects both published and previously unseen poems.

Eleanor Rimoldi was born and raised in Buffalo, New York andemigrated to New Zealand in 1961. She has taught anthropology atuniversities in Auckland, Tonga and Bougainville. Her poems havebeen published in numerous journals and magazines (previouslyunder the names Eleanor Horrocks and Eleanor Clarke) and inanthologies including Private Gardens: an Anthology of New ZealandWomen Poets; Big Smoke: New Zealand Poems 1960-1975; and TheEarths Deep Breathing: Garden Poems by New Zealand Poets.

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