{"product_id":"motherhouse-9780807130445","title":"Motherhouse","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Kathleen Jesme\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Pleiades Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Pleiades Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 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 everywhereFrom Motherhouse by Kathleen Jesme. Copyright 2004 by Kathleen Jesme. All rights reserved.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pleiades Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45115738947735,"sku":"9780807130445","price":1523.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780807130445.webp?v=1767271013","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/motherhouse-9780807130445","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}