{"product_id":"9780807130445-motherhouse","title":"Motherhouse","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePoems\u003cbr\u003eTakes the reader on a journey with a young novice through the heart of Mystery. Kathleen Jesme's poems explore the hidden, the provisional, the silent - that which does not obey the rules of the light or submit to its boundaries.\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMotherhouse\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, the silent -- that which does not obey the rules of the light or submit to its boundaries.An intensely lyrical work, Motherhouse is a cloth woven from disparate voices and structures, expressing both the deep divisions of the self and the longing for a whole that may be ultimately shaped.The convent, then prairie: stretches\u003cbr\u003eitself across the Great Plains, grabs the bank of the Red River of the North\u003cbr\u003ein one hand\u003cbr\u003eand the Rockies in the otherand pulls: you can see\u003cbr\u003euntil your sight failsnothing else\u003cbr\u003eis in the waywhere something other should be\u003cbr\u003ethere is only your darkening\u003cbr\u003esightresistance\u003cbr\u003elike bone, filleted clean in the wind\u003cbr\u003ewhich comes\u003cbr\u003efrom everywhere.\u003cbr\u003eFrom Motherhouse by Kathleen Jesme. Copyright 2004 by Kathleen Jesme. All rights reserved.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57964417122678,"sku":"9780807130445","price":16.68,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_41523129_70312aa4-a72d-46b7-8113-b04ac32f99ff.jpg?v=1780549376","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780807130445-motherhouse","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}