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Days of Our Lives : Poems by Aleshire, Joan, author is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Days of Our Lives : Poems about?

Equal parts social history and memoir documenting the unraveling of a marriage against the backdrop of the shifting social mores of 1960s and 70s America. Joan Aleshires speaker, a young wife, enters marriage gratefully, even eagerly, believing it to be a long table / with friends crowding in, red wine / in tumblers. Motherhood follows, but so do infidelities and reconciliation and ultimately divorce. With each hard knock, the speaker sheds a little more of her innocence as she gains awareness of her power as both a woman and a writer: Coming home / late from a festival for women / where Id said all the things / the audience liked, I slipped / into bed so flush with triumph / my husband recoiled from the heat.

Who reads Days of Our Lives : Poems?

Author

Aleshire, Joan, author

Publisher

UNIV PR OF NEW ENGLAND

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781945588365

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

5 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14