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Post by moira on May 16, 2008 21:48:38 GMT 2
Motherhouse Kathleen Jesme[/b] 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, the silent—that which does not obey the rules of the light or submit to its boundaries. Sample poem:The convent, then prairieThe convent, then prairie: stretches itself across the Great Plains, grabs the bank of the Red River of the North in one hand and the Rockies in the other and pulls: you can see until your sight fails nothing else is in the way where something other should be there is only your darkening sight resistance like bone, filleted clean in the wind which comes from everywhere About the author:Kathleen Jesme is the author of the poetry collection Fire Eater. Her work has appeared in many fine journals, including Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner, and Laurel Review. She lives on five acres of wood and fields near St. Paul, Minnesota. ISBN: 978-0-8071-3044-5, 104 pages, $18.95 Pleiades Press (February 2005) [glow=teal,2,300] BUY HERE, BUY NOW:[/glow] LSU Press: tinyurl.com/5drw8vAmazon: tinyurl.com/5jn9bh[/font]
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