Raptosh Diane’s ‘I Eric America’ – Contemporary Artwork Exploring Identity and Culture

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Etruscan Press, paperback

Publication Date: October 8, 2024

Publisher Marketing: In language wild and restrained, opulent and precise, these sonnets make something lasting, even beautiful, from tragedy–personal and national. Diane Raptosh’s collection of sonnets, I Eric America, combines elements of family trauma (her brother Eric’s survival of a plane crash and subsequent paraplegia) with disturbances on the national stage. Equal parts origin story, myth, and song, the book unfolds from the premise that “America is the nation-expression of / a severely traumatized person.” Throughout their singing, the poems seek to heal, transmute and transform.

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