Rich Wife by Emily Bludworth Barrios PAPERBACK 9780299351649

Name: Rich Wife by Emily Bludworth Barrios PAPERBACK 9780299351649
Brand: University of Wisconsin Press

University of Wisconsin Press

Rich WifeAuthor(s): Emily Bludworth de Barrios\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Wisconsin Press, United States\nImprint: University of Wisconsin Press\nISBN-13: 9780299351649, 978-0299351649\nSynopsis\nRich Wife is a collection of expansive long poems whose structures echo the cluttered charm of a dresser adorned with hats and hairpins, vials and scarves. Drawing inspiration from James Schuylers looping conversations and Chelsey Minniss cascading forms, these poems traverse the interlaced landscapes of motherhood, marriage, wealth, and the unspoken contracts of domestic life.\n\n Emily Bludworth de Barrios folds personal experience into far-ranging meditations on beauty, nostalgia, power, and privilege, following in the footsteps of Gertude Steins fluid turns in Lifting Belly and Anne Carsons woven observations in The Glass Essay. The poems coil back on themselves, creating recursive strands that offer readers both intimacy and critical distance. As much a contemplation o.