Motherhouse – Poems Jesme Paperback MP–LSU LSU Press 9780807130445

MotherhousePoems\nAuthor(s): Kathleen Jesme\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Louisiana State University Press, United States\nImprint: Louisiana State University Press\nISBN-13: 9780807130445, 978-0807130445\nSynopsis\nIn Motherhouse, 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 [url] 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 [url] convent, then prairie: stretch.