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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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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's not often you can accuse a book of poetry of being a page-turner, but this one was. Beautiful work, very hard to put down.]]></body>
    
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