| Blue Etiquette Contributor(s): Driskell, Kathleen (Author) |
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ISBN: 159709238X ISBN-13: 9781597092388 Publisher: Red Hen Press OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2016023201 |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.9" W x 9" (0.40 lbs) 120 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: When Kathleen Driskell pulled an old edition of Emily Post's Etiquette from the used bookstore shelf and blew dust off the blue linen cover, she instantly found herself and her family within those pages--not as the Worldlys, Oldlineages, or the Gildings (archetypes Post created to demonstrate how to properly manage a grand house full of servants), but as the housemaids, cooks, and useful men working for those very rich. The noted poet--whose collection Seed Across Snow was twice listed as a national bestseller by the Poetry Foundation--explores class, the workplace, and those tense interactions between the haves and the have nots in her new collection. As America watches its middle-class quickly decline, Blue Etiquette rings with relevance. |
Contributor Bio(s): Driskell, Kathleen: - Kathleen Driskell is the author of three previously published poetry collections including Next Door to the Dead and Seed Across Snow, listed as a national bestseller by the Poetry Foundation, and she is professor of creative writing and a director of Spalding University's low-residency MFA program in Louisville, Kentucky. |