false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173224203m/260825.jpg 260825 1 Whether in the title poem, spoken by those who lived longingly and vicariously through the famous missing aviator, or in "Circus Fire, 1944," which intimately recounts a haunting New England tragedy, Gabrielle Calvocoressi uses her prodigious gifts of imagination and empathy to give voice to the hope and heartbreak of small-town America. In painstaking, vernacular verse, she conveys the ambitions and failings of a distraught populace&#151;in the edgy jazz portrait, "Suite Billy Strayhorn," for example, or the enthralling, interwoven sequence, "At the Adult Drive-In," which conveys, at once, a personal and communal corruption. <P>Penetrating and compassionate, <I>The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart</I> portrays, with a storyteller's arc, the troubled landscape of the left-behind. 252809 28 4 2005 The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart: Poems total:55|5:31|4:17|3:6|2:1|1:0| 55 243 79 12 0 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 22 07:42:44 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 05 08:17:39 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 13:37:36 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 07:28:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Oct 02 08:07:50 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 08:08:36 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Fri Jul 13 09:36:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 13 09:39:01 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Apr 14 20:15:50 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 08 21:57:16 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Wed Oct 03 08:36:47 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 03 08:43:26 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Mon Nov 03 08:29:15 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 03 08:30:38 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 29 17:25:17 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 10 03:13:53 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 24 13:38:08 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 24 13:40:04 -0700 2008 2 5 0 false false Sat Sep 29 10:23:39 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 29 10:23:39 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Jan 07 15:49:18 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 07 15:50:26 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Sun Nov 04 19:02:52 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 06 11:16:36 -0800 2007 0 0 false false Thu Nov 12 16:31:12 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 16:31:12 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sun Oct 25 07:48:22 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 07:48:39 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Oct 13 20:22:57 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 20:22:57 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Sep 13 17:49:39 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 17:49:39 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Wed Sep 09 13:28:21 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 13:28:21 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Aug 30 06:45:25 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 06:45:25 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Aug 18 18:42:50 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 18:42:50 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Aug 15 14:30:43 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 14:30:43 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=260825