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Borderlands and crossroads : writing the motherland /

Motherhood does not just originate in the body, but in the world--a place, a region, a country or nation, a landscape, a language, a culture. Mothers are, as novelist Rachel Cusk once observed, ""the countries we come from."" This unique literary anthology features thirty-five po...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: BRADFORD : DEMETER Press, 2016.
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  • Cover; Copyright; Title Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; POETRY; Latching On, Falling Off; Suitcase; To the Mother of a Dead Marine; A Commencement Villanelle; And I Thought of the Bracelet That Said "Fall Risk"; Niagara; One Photograph; My Daughter's Body; The Annunciation; Orphan; Ghazal: The Bystanders; Villanelle for the Fearless; A Child of God, Much Like Yourself; Leaving Canada; Thank You for Your Question; The Long Silence; Blood Memory; Vantage; Leavings; How to Measure Distance*; Addendum Filed with the Medical History; Women of the Fields
  • It Was Then I Kissed HerThe Practice of Female Dispersal; Matryoshka; At the Zoo; Not Exactly Meditating at Lake Sammamish Park; Abortion Radio; Zebra; Family Spirits, with Voice of One Child Miscarried (Thailand); Light; Class Roster As Sicilian Atlas Index PS 97, Mace Avenue, The Bronx, 1964; A Reverse Ovidian Meditation; Baby Bodhi; Adagio; Somewhere, a woman is writing a poem; PROSE; Daughters of Empire; A Brief History of Near and Actual Losses; Taste of Dust; Grip; Heirlooms; Ybabruopeek; As Abraham to Isaac, Bilhah to Benjamin
  • With my Daughter, Hannah Arendt, and the City of FuturesMars; In the Back Room with Mom; Leena and the Pepper Tree; Fetish Mothers; Like Mexico; In the Dollhouse Nursery; Return, No Return; Aunt Helena; Knot; Baba's Pyrogies; My Son's Brother; Swerves; Between Worlds in Penang; A Cup of My Time; Just Across the Border; Conclusion; About the Contributors; Permissions