Blood Mother - Couverture souple

Croll, Su

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 189710927X ISBN 13 : 9781897109274

Editeur : Signature Editions, 2008

Synopsis

In her passionate second collection of poetry, Blood Mother, Su Croll casts fresh light on the timeless maternal life of women. Collating singular moments in the unfolding narrative of birth, she draws us into the emotional interior and shifting identity that comes with new motherhood, from the simple desire for children to the chaos and pain of labour, from the meditation on a child's first breath to the long-wanted birth of a second child. Always mindful of the relationships between mothers and tackling the feminist challenge of representation, Croll asks how mothers are meant to see themselves when the language itself seems insufficient. How is a woman supposed to express the strange miracle of mothering without falling into "a soft sponge of hopeless cliché"? What "lattice of wording," Croll wonders, is enough to convey this "ridiculous and contradicting trick" of nurturing new life? Set against Alberta's urban and natural spaces, Blood Mother answers with remarkable originality in poems that never background the frustrations of motherhood while celebrating the rapturous pleasures that many women are summoned to in giving birth to their children and our families.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Su Croll's first book of poetry, Worlda Mirth, won the 1992 Kalamalka New Writers Competition and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award.

She has studied English and visual art at the University of Ottawa and writing and film at Concordia University in Montreal. Widely published in Canadian literary magazines and anthologies and the recipient of numerous awards for her fiction and poetry, Croll teaches English as a Second Language and lives in Edmonton with her husband and children. She is currently working on a novel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Signature Editions
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 189710927X
• ISBN 13: 9781897109274
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 94
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible