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No Acute Distress
ISBN: 9780809334827 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Jennifer Richter s penetrating second collection of poems, No Acute Distress, introduces us to the unspoken struggles and unanticipated epiphanies of illness and motherhood, subjects rarely explored together in contemporary poetry. The first poem of each section borrows from a classic joke form one begins, An intractable migraine walks into a bar to consider the thin line this mother walks between the tragic and comic: debilitating pain met with increasingly absurd and desperate medical treatments.
Richter seasons her work with irony from the start, titling the book s opening... Jennifer Richter s penetrating second collection of poems, No Acute Distress, introduces us to the unspoken struggles and unanticipated epiphan...
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Threshold
ISBN: 9780809329656 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Jennifer Richter presents a series of poems that explore the many facets of the term "threshold." Throughout the collection, the narrator experiences several acts of threshing, or separating--from birth and the small yet profound distances that part a mother and child, to the separation caused by illness and its toll on relationships. At the same time, she is progressively gathering, piecing together the remnants of her life, collecting her children into her arms, and welcoming a future without pain. Pain is often present in these poems, as the narrator frequently confronts her own threshold...
Jennifer Richter presents a series of poems that explore the many facets of the term "threshold." Throughout the collection, the narrator experiences ...
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98,20 zł |