Cadence
Published on 13. March 2018
32 pages
978-1-63101-343-0 (ISBN)
Description
Having children fundamentally disrupts and remakes us, in terms of body, identity, perspective, and voice. The world shrinks and exponentially expands. Our already fraught human experience of time is shredded and magnified.Cadence captures the poet's point of view as a new mother, reveling in a position of heightened vulnerability and ferocity. The poems in this chapbook are breathless, hyperattentive to others' needs, and equally in love with earthliness and repulsed by the monstrousness we enact/bear witness to.The central tenets of this chapbook: ideas of the body, pregnancy, and motherhood; how becoming a parent destabilizes the self; local anxieties (What if my child doesn't eat enough? How will I ever sleep again?) and global anxieties (How do we respond to these tumultuous times, full of such hate, racism, and xenophobia? How do we help?); and the ever-deepening desire to protect those who are (increasingly) threatened.
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Language
English
Place of publication
La Vergne
United States
ISBN-13
978-1-63101-343-0 (9781631013430)
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Hannah Stephenson
Cadence
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03/2018
Kent State University Press
€7.50
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Content
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Bikini Season
- Swap Places
- Cadence
- Nesting
- Sagittarius
- You Were Early
- Dream Feed
- Novices
- This Is Snow
- Lullaby
- Rocker
- The New Oath
- Smash Cake
- Dandelion
- Still Crying
- Theorems and Proofs
