Code: 04748109

Nesting Doll

Name: Nesting Doll
Brand: University Press of Colorado
SKU: 04748109
Price: 18.00 EUR
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by Rita Brady Kiefer

Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 55
Publisher: University Press of Colorado, 1999
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In Nesting Doll, Rita Brady Kiefer celebrates the power of words to transform life while exploring the mysterious ways memory and language help shape each other. Throughout twenty poems, Kiefer brilliantly explores the way in which women and religious subjects interrelate, handling a great many psychological subtleties with ease and in straightforward verse.The title poem, "Nesting Doll, " is emblematic of how we attempt to uncover layers of personality in order to discover what it means to inhabit a human body while at the same time exist in a community. This seven-part poem places at center stage women from Kiefer's individual history who resonate with women from our own. Another selection, a sequence of poems known as the "Sister Mailee Sequence, " offers a lyric perspective on the poet's "previous life" as a Catholic nun. This particular piece calls into question the permanence of vocation and examines endless possibilities of the relationships between an individual's spiritual and sensuous lives. The final poem is an elegy for one of the four churchwomen murdered in El Salvador in 1980.Whether the poems in this volume originate from Marie Curie's thumbs ("near senseless from chemicals (she was that in love with looking)"), a campus tree that keeps returning ("4 maybe 5 times cutdown"), or the voices of "my sweet...diaphonous...dead, " the images created rely on the silences surrounding Kiefer's words as much as what is articulated. Whether reflecting tentative constructed human relationships or connections with the natural world, this collection of poems embraces uncertainty as a way of being.