The dottery / Kirsten Kaschock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaschock, Kirsten, author.

Series:

Pitt poetry series.

Pitt Poetry Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Purgatory--Poetry.

Purgatory.

Purgatory--History of doctrines.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 PDF (ix, 77 pages).)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Winner of the 2013 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry The Dottery is a tale of dotters before they are born. In this series of prose poems you meet their would-be-mutters, the buoys they will know, their inner warden, and the mutterers who cannot have them. The Dottery itself is a sort-of pre-purgatory, a finishing school for the fetal feminine. The five sections correspond to the conceptual set-ups interrogated within. In "wound, " The Dottery is described, as are its inhabitants and their difficulties. In "Dual, " a gender binary is introduced and (hopefully) eviscerated. "Triage" establishes the issues that plague both the dotters and those who would bring them out into the world-specifically into the idea of America (I'm Erica and I can prefer a hummer to the rose parade"). In "Fear, " failed dotters (out in the world) are described in obit fashion. Finally, in "Thief" one mutterer recounts how she stole her dotter ("a snatched piece") to become a mutter and chronicles both her desires and regrets.

Contents:

Wound

Duel

Triage

Fear

Thief.

Notes:

Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (ebrary, viewed October 11, 2014).

Donald Hall Prize in Poetry, 2013.

ISBN:

9780822980322

0822980320

OCLC:

892300448