
Hive
Christina Stoddard(Author)
University of Wisconsin Press
Published on 12. March 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
80 pages
978-0-299-30424-9 (ISBN)
Description
Hive is a remarkable debut collection of poems about brutality, exaltation, rebellion, and allegiance. Written in the voice of a teenage Mormon girl, these poems chronicle an inheritance of daily violence and closely guarded secrets. A conflicting cast of recurring characters-best friends, sisters, serial killers, and the ominous Elders-move through these poems as the speaker begins to struggle with the widening gulf between her impulse toward faith and her growing doubts about the people who claim to know God's will. Ultimately she must confront what it means to believe and what it costs to save ourselves.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wisconsin
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
136 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-299-30424-9 (9780299304249)
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Person
Christina Stoddard grew up in Tacoma, Washington, USA, as a member of the Mormon church. She earned an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA where she was the Fred Chappell Fellow. She is currently the managing editor of an economics journal at Vanderbilt University, USA.