
The Invented Mother
Thea Goodman(Author)
Finishing Line Press
Published on 29. September 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
38 pages
979-8-88838-319-3 (ISBN)
Description
The Invented Mother explores cultural notions and daily realities of our most elemental relationships, as well as gender, sexuality, nature and creation. It's poems are full of wonder: What is a mother? What is natural and what is constructed? How do words define us? Here, acts of care, creativity and violence are subjects that begin with awe of the natural world. Written in a variety of forms, animals, food, color and light animate verse that evokes the mysteries of love on a changing planet.
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Series
Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight
63 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-88838-319-3 (9798888383193)
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Thea Goodman is a novelist, poet and educator in Chicago. Her first novel, The Sunshine When She's Gone (Henry Holt) appeared in 2013 to critical acclaim. Her short fiction, essays and poems have appeared in New England Review, Arrowsmith, Columbia, among others. The Invented Mother was a finalist in The New Women's Voices Chapbook Competition 2022.