The Practice of Female Dispersal, by Kelly Nelson

It Was Then I Kissed Her, by Andrena Zawinski How to Measure Distance, by Charlotte PenceĪddendum Filed with the Medical History, by Leonard Neufeldt Thank You for Your Question, by Kathleen McGookey Villanelle for the Fearless, by Robin CarstensenĪ Child of God, Much Like Yourself, by Heidi Czerwiec Ghazal: The Bystanders, by Robin Carstensen TaylorĪnd I Thought of the Bracelet That Said Fall Risk, by A.V. TaylorĪ Commencement Villanelle, by Marilyn L. To the Mother of a Dead Marine, by Marilyn L. Latching On, Falling Off, by Beth Ann Fennelly Rishma Dunlop 1956 – 2016 Table of Contents Includes bibliographical references and index.ġ. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publicationīorderlands and crossroads : writing the motherland / edited by Jane Satterfield and Laurie Kruk.

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Recovering the maternal landscape through poetry and prose, these writers both memorialize and celebrate the power of family to define, limit, and challenge us. Spanning the globe-from the U.K, the USA and Canada, Egypt, the former Yugoslavia, France, Africa, Korea and South America-these intimate and honest narratives of the heart cross borders and define crossroads that are personal and political, old and new. Here, forty-three award-winning and accomplished writers reflect on their complex twenty-first century familial identities and relationships, exploring maternal landscapes of all kinds, including those of heritage, matrilineage, geneaology, geography, emigration, war, exile, alienation, and affiliation. Mothers are, as novelist Rachel Cusk once observed, “the countries we come from.” This unique literary anthology features thirty-five poems and twenty-three works of prose (creative non-fiction and short fiction). Motherhood does not just originate in the body, but in the world-a place, a region, a country or nation, a landscape, a language, a culture.

Reading Like A Girl by Rishma Dunlop