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    612-822-4611

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The Bamboo Wife

The Bamboo Wife

Sevick, Leona

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 1949487296
ISBN13: 9781949487299
Publisher: Trio House Press
Published: Jul 1 2024
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Leona Sevick's The Bamboo Wife captures the experiences of an imperfect woman held up against the standard of good wife and mother. Sevick is a master of metaphor and imagery, depicting, for example, a mother as a kraken. In the sea creature's words, It takes a hard-ass woman to raise her young. Every poem is wrought with precise description and emotion. We get nature as well as some location-based poems orienting us in Korea. There is anger and sadness, the animal need to run in all directions at once, and family trauma both past and present. This trauma is inflicted on the speaker as a child and to some degree perpetuated through her own parenting. The collection asks the reader to provide space in poetry for a woman trying to do her best for her own and others' sake, for one who has made bad decisions and lived. Every poem is necessary, and Sevick makes each word count. Honesty carries this collection through her speaker's good, bad, and ugly moments. It takes courage for someone to say, there's no mistake I haven't made.

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