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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Motherhouse

Motherhouse

Jesme, Kathleen

Paperback

Series: Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series Award

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $21.95

ISBN10: 0807130443
ISBN13: 9780807130445
Publisher: Pleiades Press
Published: Mar 1 2005
Pages: 97
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.38 Depth: 8.98
Language: English

In Motherhouse, Kathleen Jesme takes the reader on a journey with a young novice through the heart of Mystery. Jesme's poems, which investigate religious life in a convent in the 1960s, are assembled from many fragments: juxtapositions of place and time (childhood and novitiate), shifting scale (the minuteness of an old beige comb from home, the boundlessness of a three-axled God), and varying poetic forms. Jesme explores the hidden, the provisional, the silent -- that which does not obey the rules of the light or submit to its boundaries.An intensely lyrical work, Motherhouse is a cloth woven from disparate voices and structures, expressing both the deep divisions of the self and the longing for a whole that may be ultimately shaped.The convent, then prairie: stretches

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