Home Remedies

by Sarah Kennedy

Book Overview

In her powerful new collection, Sarah Kennedy draws on the historical record, as well her personal life, to explore relationships and bodies, both physical and textual. Kennedy underscores human frailty in poems that dramatize the lives of British women who kept recipe manuscripts containing both medicinal and culinary receipts during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These women often recorded their frustrations and triumphs as both doctors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807134066
• ISBN13: 9780807134061
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.9" x 8.8"