Why the House Is Made of Gingerbread
(Part of the L.E. Phillabaum Poetry Award Series)
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In Ava Leavell Haymon's third collection, an unremarkable, harried, contemporary woman named Gretel finds herself at midlife overtaken by the Grimms' household tale Hansel and Gretel. The violence and terror in that story supplant the memory of her own childhood, and the fairy tale retells itself in a sharp succession of surprising poems. The witch, the sugar house, Gretel's brother, her passive father, his cruel second wife, the sinister forest...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0807135860
ISBN13:9780807135860
Release Date:March 2010
Publisher:LSU Press
Length:72 Pages
Weight:0.25 lbs.
Dimensions:0.2" x 5.4" x 8.3"
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