Burninghouse Contributor(s): Stiles, Deborah (Author) |
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ISBN: 189548846X ISBN-13: 9781895488463 Publisher: Anchorage Press OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Canadian - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Family - Poetry | Women Authors |
Physical Information: 0.2" H x 5.1" W x 8.3" (0.20 lbs) 48 pages |
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Publisher Description: It is time we resist. Taking its title from a child's drawing of a burning house where "there is always the crucial act of rescue, saving somebody, nobody hurt and they can build another house as long as nobody dies," burninghouse peels away the veneer of the speaker's existence to reveal the hypocritical inconsistencies that lie beneath, including weaning children, decorum in elevators, and homelessness. Deeply rooted in the passing of time, Deborah Stiles offers a clear-eyed perspective on the realities of motherhood and womanhood in an age when old patriarchal orders are in flux and our relationship with the natural world is under threat. "Now I turn my back on the gestures and the words usually in place there, at the door, and go, and that I do disturbs me." |