The Distaff Side

The Distaff Side

Mary Leader

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Shearsman Books
Año de edición:
2022
Materia
Poesía
ISBN:
9781848618060
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'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 passage also entails the vital connections to selfhood, history, meaning, and wisdom. This is a book that syllable by syllable as if stitch by stitch, creates patterns that exceed the confines of artistic form by reclaiming form and redefining it, with a total effect that is affirming and transcendent. What a joy it is to inhabit this world in which the needle and the pen share the labors of love. After all, love is a most subversive expression. This book is proof.' -Maurice Manning

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