Handiwork

by Amaranth Borsuk

Poetry. HANDIWORK is in itself a work of craftsmanship, piecing together fragments while at the same time producing anew. Borsuk summons the tradition of Hebrew gematria to investigate and engage with language's slipperiness, and, as she explains, to provide "a sense of hope within constraint: the fruitful possibility of language." It also wrestles with and probes into "where family history becomes personal mythology, and where gaps open up that ask...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0977769879
• ISBN13: 9780977769872
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Slope Editions
• Length: 78 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 16 years and up