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All my mad mothers / Jacqueline Saphra.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Saphra, Jacqueline, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--21st century.
- English poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (75 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Rugby, England : Nine Arches Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- Jacqueline Saphra 's All My Mad Mothers explores love, sex and family relationships in vivacious, lush poems that span the decades and generations. At the heart of this collection of poems is the portrait of a mother as multitudes - as a magician with a bathroom of beauty tricks, as necromancer, as glamourous fire-starter, trapped in ever-decreasing circles and, above all else, almost impossible to grasp.With an emphasis on the cultures of the different times, we tread a tantalising tightrope between the confessional and the invented. These astute poems step assuredly from childhood's first exposures to the scratched records and unsuitable lovers of young womanhood, the slammed doors of daughters and sons, the tears and salted soups of friendships, and the charms of late love. All the time, incandescent and luminous as an everlasting lightbulb, at the heart of each of Saphra's poems is a delicate filament kicking out a heavy-duty wattage.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on print record.
- ISBN:
- 9781911027348
- 1911027344
- OCLC:
- 1455763927
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