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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Pantyhose Declarations

The Pantyhose Declarations

Lundeen, Nan

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1449900852
ISBN13: 9781449900854
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jan 12 2010
Pages: 82
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.17 Width: 5.24 Depth: 7.99
Language: English
Nan Lundeen's powerful collection of thirty-eight poems introduces the reader to women who refuse to wear pantyhose, who rebuff the duty train, and who discover the magic of a redemptive red bra. Her poetry celebrates the Goddess in her many guises, the Earth swathed in its solstitial shrouds, and the power of a women's circle. It reclaims the Persephone-Demeter myth as two independent women and celebrates the unafraid dark soul on the longest night of the year. The ancient Eastern goddess, Quan Yin, speaks soft as a bell offshore/soft as a white petal/dusting cheek of Muse. The Earth awakens in April and, the trees -- the narrow trees/seemingly dead/everywhere singing with frothy green. Lundeen's poetry honors the robust women of her Iowa heritage -- her late grandmother who becomes an angel, stirring soap in the farmhouse basement as an Easter ice storm rages; her mother, Marian, who refuses to relinquish her singing voice to dementia; and Aunt Geneva, who struggles like a sumo wrestler with her corset on her wedding day. She finds spirituality in simple scenes, The praying tree/one gray arm curved upward/as if she were a war veteran/who refuses to relinquish faith, and she finds grace in her little dog who sits beside her while she brushes her teeth: Nobody else I know will do that.

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