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  • The Wood That Will Be Used
    Mary Leader
    'Mary Leader’s The Wood That Will Be Used is a tour de force exemplifying what results from a lifetime of labor in the word, a lifetime of one’s poring over rich literary texts, and of one’s developing the habit of one’s offering answering texts; it also manifests a capacious mind shaped by wit, by candor, and by a keen eye. Receiving the matter prepared for her, she has shaped...
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    15,29 €

  • The Distaff Side
    Mary Leader
    'Needlework, as this brilliant book makes plain, has been trivialized and dismissed as mere 'women’s work.' The poems here, however, present the powerful counterpoint that work with the needle, from the flame-stitch to embroidery, is both a skill and a foundation for female artistic expression.  It is a hands-on art, passed from woman to woman through the generations. Such pass...
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    16,12 €

  • She Lives There Still
    Mary Leader
    She Lives There Still is Mary Leader’s second collection with Shearsman Books. In some senses, it is an extension of her previous Shearsman volume, Beyond the Fire, in that it reinforces what John Muckle in PN Review described as “The overall impression is of a mind that’s acute, musical and subtle being brought to bear on everyday life.” In other senses, it seeks radically to ...
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    17,06 €

  • Beyond the Fire
    Mary Leader
    The work in Mary Leader’s third collection, Beyond the Fire, does not conform to any one habitation, nor aesthetic persuasion, nor name. On the contrary, just about every poem invents its own territory and its own terms. Some poems are straightforward narratives, while others repeat spells and castings. Many are figural; some are classical; some even aspire to anonymity. The bo...
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    15,90 €