Autor: Mary Leader

Editorial: Shearsman Books

Páginas: 102

Idioma: eng

Publicado: 22/08/2022

Alto: 229.00 mm

Ancho: 152.00 mm

Lomo: 6.21 mm

Acabado: Tapa Blanda

Sinopsis:

"Needlework, as this brilliant book makes plain, has been trivialized and dismissed as mere "women’s work." The poems here, however, present the powerful counterpoint that work with the needle, from the flame-stitch to embroidery, is both a skill and a foundation for female artistic expression.  It is a hands-on art, passed from woman to woman through the generations. Such passage also entails the vital connections to selfhood, history, meaning, and wisdom. This is a book that syllable by syllable as if stitch by stitch, creates patterns that exceed the confines of artistic form by reclaiming form and redefining it, with a total effect that is affirming and transcendent. What a joy it is to inhabit this world in which the needle and the pen share the labors of love. After all, love is a most subversive expression. This book is proof." -Maurice Manning