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Laura Madeline Wiseman has created a strange and wondrous world in this ambitious new collection. In deft turns, Wiseman travels multiple geographies the world of myth and true fairy tales, the underworld of sketchy hotel rooms and desire, the natural landscape that enchants and confounds, the worlds of want and need and love and loss. Her voice by turns gritty and warm, edgy and elegiac, Wiseman expertly weaves a tale of obsession with the girlish femininity of fairies within the larger story of how women must become shape shifters to navigate the terrain of relationship to the self and to the world. We see what it means to possess and to be possessed. I think of love--/land, vegetables, fruits, fat and round and free//how some can be spared. There is care, other stories/we can cultivate here, other worlds to see-- Her fairies are by turn gritty and fluffy: they sit on crates on corners with cardboard signsSome even keep very small dogs. By the books end, we have emerged from the underworld, the threads of relationship rewoven, restored but deeply changed by the journey. Kate Lynn Hibbard, author of Sweet Weight Laura Madeline Wisemans prose is razor-sharp, cutting through all th

Author

Wiseman, Laura Madeline

Publisher

Blazevox [books]

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781609642327