Author Description

"A daughter's aubade (sailing out from Sognefjord) is a sequence of poems that broadly addresses ideas of place and the passage of time, while reflecting on the intimate process of aging, specifically in the poet's mother and in herself. The eponymous poem emerged from Adamitz Scrupe's travels with her mother in Norway, the country from which her family emigrated in the nineteenth century. Nordic stoicism radiates throughout this collection as the poet investigates and addresses the universal challenges and joys of the mother-daughter relationship by way of history and ethnography, as well as through a lens of personal experiences. These poems explore the many ways we broadly define love in the human narrative, and our emotional responses to one another in the context of social expectations"--Back cover