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Motherhouse

Poems

By: Kathleen Jesme

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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 "old beige comb from home," the boundlessness of a "three-axled God"), and varying poetic forms. Jesme explores the hidden, the provisional, the silent -- 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 itself across the Great Plains,grabs the bank of the Red River of the North in one hand and the Rockies in the otherand pulls: you can see until your sight failsnothing else is in the waywhere something other should be there is only your darkening sightresistance like bone, filleted clean in the wind which comes from everywhereFrom Motherhouse by Kathleen Jesme. Copyright 2004 by Kathleen Jesme. All rights reserved.

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LSU Press

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0807130443

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Meridian

By: Kathleen Jesme

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Meridian

By: Kathleen Jesme

Poetry. A meditation on the death of a mother, MERIDIAN measures the hours and reflects on how experience collapses and elongates time, creating a lens through which we can look at how we're connected and separated. And the poet asks: Is music our best refusal to accede to the irrationality of death? "I have long considered Kathleen Jesme a truly remarkable poet. In MERIDIAN, however, she outdoes herself. Jesme fills this lyric chronicle of the death of her mother with precise observations, strange silences, and breathtaking moments of beauty and music. Whether she dwells on the relentless snow whispering around the house or slips into crystalline recollection of her mother's slow failure, I sense in these poems a subtle mind at work on an unsolvable problem. For Jesme knows we can find neither clarity nor conclusion in the emptiness death leaves behind, but must always circle around it, reaching for meaning in the images and memories that surround us as we prepare to grieve, and then grieve. 'I am swimming toward you, ' she writes late in the poem, 'through / the past / which clings to me / and holds me / back / and up.' MERIDIAN is not merely a beautifully written, ambitious poem-it is also the most moving I have read in a long time." Kevin Prufer

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Motherhouse

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By: Kathleen Jesme

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By: Kathleen Jesme

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The Timeless Mind

By: Kathleen Fraser

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The Timeless Mind

By: Kathleen Fraser

THE TIMELESS MIND is Kathleen's autobiography charting her tragic life from the age of four. Kathleen writes of unfulfilled educational ambition, artistic temperament, marriage, motherhood, bereavement, Supernatural/Healing experiences, feminist opinion and challenges to conventional thinking.

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0955590701

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The Scent of Her

By: Kathleen Hewitt

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The Scent of Her

By: Kathleen Hewitt

The Scent of Her is a story about redemption, forgiveness and longing as told by a young girl who needed to mother her own mother. It is a poignant reflection of childhood images and desires within one of the most important of relationships, that of a mother and her daughter. The journey continues for the daughter as she becomes a mother herself, and she reaches toward extraordinary acceptance and understanding of the woman she loves; the woman who has loved her in the only way she could. It is a story of survival and it becomes an inspiring and heartwarming message of hope for relationships of all kinds.

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Electio Publishing

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0615916805

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