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Mother Water: Poems

Mother Water: Poems

Banks, Emily

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 0899241670
ISBN13: 9780899241678
Publisher: Lynx House Press
Published: Feb 28 2020
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

Mother Water centers on maternal inheritance in literal and figurative forms. Through its water motif, the book traces the speaker's transformations as she absorbs, and often resists, lessons from the women who guide her. The poems explore the speaker's sense of self through feminine genealogy and her mother's voice, the mother figure becoming simultaneously nurturing and threatening, teaching her daughter to survive in a perilous world. Coming-of-age poems are here, too, and poems exploring gender mystique, balance, relationship, and understanding. The book's last section considers how we are altered by loss and how that alteration challenges our notions of both individual subjectivity and bodily autonomy.

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