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    <![CDATA[Motherhouse: Poems (Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series Award)]]>
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    <![CDATA[In 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 &quot;old beige comb from home,&quot; the boundlessness of a &quot;three-axled God&quot;), and varying poetic forms. Jesme explores the hidden, the provisional, the silent&#151;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<br/><p>itself across the Great Plains, <p>grabs the bank of the Red River of the North<br/> in one hand<br/> and the Rockies in the other  and pulls: you can see<br/> until your sight fails  nothing else<br/> is in the way  where something other should be<br/> there is only your darkening<br/> sight  resistance<br/> like bone, filleted clean in the wind<br/> which comes<br/> from everywhere</p></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Plum-Stone Game]]>
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    <![CDATA[Kathleen Jesme asks what happens if the ordinary ways of knowing are taken away--if one is suddenly unable to see or hear, or has been stripped of the familiar past. What shows through when darkness creates a different inner landscape? Jesme excavates these inner landscapes and discovers artifacts to reveal new directions to dig, always bringing the reader somewhere unexpected.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Fire Eater: Poems]]>
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    <![CDATA[Kathleen Jesme¹s Fire Eater traced complex and ultimately transformative  connections between the poet and the landscape of her native Northern Minnesota painted  with images of oak, cedar, pine, water and changing light.  In an opening prismatic sequence  of poems, she movingly chronicles the Great Fire of 1910 that took a forest and a town,  leaving mass graves, darkness, and erasure in its wake.  Jesme ventures into the darkness in  search of light, as she explores the intersections of the fires of her own past and communal  memories of the 1910 conflagration.  Her deft turns of phrase and language vibrant with  restrained passion illuminate a clarifying and disquieting vision.  Fire Eater concludes with a  tranced evocation of her Novitiate within convent walls, as she explores a deepening access  to the interior:  &quot;the heart of the woods:  a furnace of light.&quot;]]>
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    <![CDATA[Fire Eater: Poems]]>
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