The Bamboo Wife

By: Sevick, Leona

Leona Sevick's The Bamboo Wife captures the experiences of an imperfect woman held up against the standard of "good" wife and mother. Sevick is a master of metaphor and imagery, depicting, for example, a mother as a kraken. In the sea creature's words, "It takes a hard-ass woman to raise her young." Every poem is wrought with precise description and emotion. We get nature as well as some location-based poems orienting us in Korea. There is anger...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1949487296
• ISBN13: 9781949487299
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Trio House Press
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"