The Explosive Expert's Wife
Published on 28. February 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
88 pages
978-0-299-31734-8 (ISBN)
Description
In sparse, powerful lines, Shara Lessley recalls an expat's displacement, examines her experience as a mother, and offers intimate witness to the unfolding of the Arab Spring. Veering from the strip malls and situation rooms of Washington to the markets and mines of Amman, Lessley confronts the pressures and pleasures of other cultures, exploring our common humanity with all its aggressions, loves, biases, and contradictions.
Reviews / Votes
"Lessley's poetry tunes our eyes and ears to recognize that each of us not only holds within ourselves the capacity to inflict terror upon one another, but the capability to endure it as well. This work exhorts us to become numb to neither."-ConsequenceMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Wisconsin
United States
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
159 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-299-31734-8 (9780299317348)
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Person
Shara Lessley is the author of Two-Headed Nightingale. Her awards include a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, and a Diane Middlebrook Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The coeditor of The Poem's Country: Place and Poetic Practice, she lives in Oxford, England.