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Title: Cadence
Condition: New
Author: Hannah Stephenson
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9781606353509
ISBN: 9781606353509
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Genre: Poetry & Drama
Release Date: 30/03/2018
Description: Having children fundamentally disrupts and remakes us, in terms of body, identity, perspective, and voice. The world shrinks and exponentially expands. Our already-fraught human experience of time is shredded and magnified.

Cadence captures the poet’s point of view as a new mother, reveling in a position of heightened vulnerability and ferocity. The poems in this chapbook are breathless, hyperattentive to others’ needs, and equally in love with earthliness and repulsed by the monstrousness we enact/bear witness to.

The central tenets of this chapbook: ideas of the body, pregnancy, and motherhood; how becoming a parent destabilizes the self; local anxieties (What if my child doesn’t eat enough? How will I ever sleep again?) and global anxieties (How do we respond to these tumultuous times, full of such hate, racism, and xenophobia? How do we help?); and the ever-deepening desire to protect those who are (increasingly) threatened.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 216mm
Item Length: 140mm
Book Series: Wick Poetry Chapbook Series Five
Release Year: 2018

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