Motherhouse

by Kathleen Jesme

In Motherhouse, Kathleen Jesme takes the reader on a journey with a young novice through the heart of Mystery. Jesme's poems, which investigate religious life in a convent in the 1960s, are assembled from many fragments: juxtapositions of place and time (childhood and novitiate), shifting scale (the minuteness of an old beige comb from home, the boundlessness of a three-axled God), and varying poetic forms. Jesme explores the hidden, the provisional,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807130443
• ISBN13: 9780807130445
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Pleiades Press
• Length: 97 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.4" x 9.0"