Deriving

Jennifer Bowering Delisle

• Editorial: The University of Alberta Press
• Año: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781772126396
• Categoría: Literature
• Categoría: Canadian Poetry

Deriving is a feminist exploration of the creation of life, of family, and of words themselves. Delisle asks: How does past infertility colour the experience of new motherhood? How do historical voices echo in the present? How does language impact our ways of being in the world? These poems embrace the rich material of mothering with unapologetic honesty, confronting the experiences that some would keep hidden. Fear, anger, envy mix with joy and ultimately hope, as Delisle considers the challenges of conceiving and raising children in both familial and global contexts. Deriving is a poignant, lyrical meditation on longing, place, and embodiment. I watched it freeze up, rafts of white snagging beneath the bridge, frazil ice, pans linked along the shoreline.Inside me my son was building white fat on bone.- from "North Saskatchewan"

Índice

• Cover
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Etymology
• WATER IN A BLUE GLASS
• SHOEBOX PHOTOS
• DRINK THE RIVER
• “THE PERFECTION OF WOMANHOOD”
• HOW THE RIVER CARVES OUR NAMES
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Series Page