Limit this search to....

Hemisphere: Poems
Contributor(s): Hagan, Ellen (Author)
ISBN: 0810130807     ISBN-13: 9780810130807
Publisher: Triquarterly Books
OUR PRICE:   $15.26  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: April 2015
Qty:
Temporarily out of stock - Will ship within 2 to 5 weeks
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - General
Dewey: 811.6
LCCN: 2014037056
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6.1" W x 8.3" (0.35 lbs) 96 pages
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:

Winner, 2015 Seven Sisters Book Award for Poetry

The poems in Hemisphere explore what it means to be a daughter and what it means to bear new life. Ellen Hagan investigates the world historical hemispheres of a family legacy from around the globe and moves down to the most intimate hemisphere of im­pending motherhood. Her poems reclaim the female body from the violence, both literal and literary, done to it over the years. Hagan acknowledges the changing body of a mother from the strains of birth--from the growing body of a child, to the scars left most visibly by a C-section--as well as the changes wrought by age and, too often, abuse. The existence of a hemisphere im­plies a part seeking a whole, and as a collection, Hemisphere is a coherent and cogent journey toward reclamation and wholeness.