false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184437843m/1507946.jpg 1507946 1 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 "old beige comb from home," the boundlessness of a "three-axled God"), 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 1499504 2 2005 Motherhouse: Poems (Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series Award) total:11|5:10|4:1| 11 54 13 2 4 0 false false Tue Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 15:51:08 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 15:52:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 15:24:45 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 20:25:51 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Apr 18 12:12:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 12:12:00 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Nov 10 16:31:56 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 10 16:31:56 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Sun Jun 08 05:21:58 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 08 05:22:10 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Wed Dec 12 21:20:13 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 12 21:20:13 -0800 2007 5 0 false false Wed Sep 05 19:21:28 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 05 19:21:28 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Tue Jul 24 15:11:07 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 24 15:11:07 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Tue Jul 24 11:06:02 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 24 11:06:02 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Mon Jul 23 12:31:56 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 23 12:31:56 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Sun Jul 22 22:12:05 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 22 22:12:05 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Sat Jul 21 09:27:52 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 21 09:27:52 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Sat Jul 14 11:31:04 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 14 11:31:04 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1507946