{"product_id":"motherhouse-2","title":"Motherhouse","description":"In \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.","brand":"Louisiana State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55807329698136,"sku":"9780807130445","price":21.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780807130445.jpg?v=1779864361","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/motherhouse-2","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}