Description
Poetry. How do we care for a broken world, especially when we ourselves are broken-hearted? How do we nurture others when we have scarce resources? How do we maintain our own sense of self under these pressures? The work of care falls disproportionately on women and often renders them lacking and unacknowledged in their labor. GENTLEWOMEN explores personal and historical trauma, bonds between mothers and sisters, and our estrangement from the natural world and from ourselves due to an exploitative and extractive relationship to land and peoples (human and otherwise). Through an allegorical envisioning of a world that is like our own but heightened through the individual lives and responsibilities of three sisters, Natura, Providentia, and Fortuna, the poems sound out in mourning and frustration-and try to imagine the world otherwise. A transformative journey through the shadows towards reconciliation both between sisters and with oneself.
Author: Megan Kaminski
Publisher: Noemi Press
Published: 10/15/2020
Pages: 81
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.30d
ISBN13: 9781934819913
ISBN10: 1934819913
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Family
- Poetry | LGBTQ+
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