Mrs. Dumpty: Volume 1998
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Book Overview
The poems in Mrs. Dumpty are about "a great fall," the dissolution of a long and loving marriage, but they are not simply documentary or elegiac. What interests Chana Bloch is the inner life: how we are formed by our losses and our parents' losses, how we learn what we need to know through our intuitions and confusions, how we deny and delay and finally discover who we are.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0299160041
ISBN13:9780299160043
Release Date:October 1998
Publisher:University of Wisconsin Press
Length:80 Pages
Weight:0.35 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 6.5" x 8.9"
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Well written and consistent
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
This book of poems by Chana Bloch (Hah-nuh Block) is an excellent insight into the mind of a woman whose husband slowly contracted mental disease. The poems all center around this topic--being the wife a mentally ill man and the impact in had on her emotional well-being. The majority of the poems are stories told from her marriage and fall in chronological order. Ms. Bloch is a master of metaphor and it is fun to try and interpret what she was thinking and picturing in her mind as she wrote these poems. The only downer is that there are only about 60 pages of material, but definitely one to check out.
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