Cadence - Couverture souple

Stephenson, Hannah

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1606353500 ISBN 13 : 9781606353509

Editeur : Kent State University Press, 2018

Synopsis

Having children fundamentally disrupts and remakes us, in terms of body, identity, perspective, and voice. The world shrinks and exponentially expands. Our already fraught human experience of time is shredded and magnified.

Cadence captures the poet's point of view as a new mother, reveling in a position of heightened vulnerability and ferocity. The poems in this chapbook are breathless, hyperattentive to others' needs, and equally in love with earthliness and repulsed by the monstrousness we enact/bear witness to.

The central tenets of this chapbook: ideas of the body, pregnancy, and motherhood; how becoming a parent destabilizes the self; local anxieties (What if my child doesn't eat enough? How will I ever sleep again?) and global anxieties (How do we respond to these tumultuous times, full of such hate, racism, and xenophobia? How do we help?); and the ever-deepening desire to protect those who are (increasingly) threatened.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Hannah Stephenson is a poet and editor living in Columbus, Ohio (where she also runs a literary event series called Paging Columbus). In addition to Cadence, she is the author of In the Kettle, the Shriek (Gold Wake Press) and series coeditor of New Poetry from the Midwest (New American Press). Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Huffington Post, 32 Poems, Vela, The Journal, and Poetry Daily.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kent State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1606353500
• ISBN 13: 9781606353509
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 32
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne