Why the House Is Made of Gingerbread

by Ava Leavell Haymon

Book Overview

In Ava Leavell Haymon's third collection, an unremarkable, harried, contemporary woman named Gretel finds herself at midlife overtaken by the Grimms' household tale Hansel and Gretel. The violence and terror in that story supplant the memory of her own childhood, and the fairy tale retells itself in a sharp succession of surprising poems. The witch, the sugar house, Gretel's brother, her passive father, his cruel second wife, the sinister forest...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807135860
• ISBN13: 9780807135860
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.4" x 8.3"