In Motherhouse, Kathleen Jesme takes the reader on a journey with a young novice through the heart of Mystery. Jesme's poems, which investigate religious life in a convent in the 1960s, are assembled from many fragments: juxtapositions of place and time (childhood and novitiate), shifting scale (the minuteness of an old beige comb from home, the boundlessness of a three-axled God), and varying poetic forms. Jesme explores the hidden, the provisional,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0807130443
ISBN13:9780807130445
Release Date:March 2005
Publisher:Pleiades Press
Length:97 Pages
Weight:0.40 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 6.4" x 9.0"
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