Gentlewomen by Megan Kaminski

Gentlewomen by Megan Kaminski

Poetry. How do we care for a broken world, especially when we ourselves are broken-hearted? How do we nurture others when we have scarce resources? How do we maintain our own sense of self under these pressures? The work of care falls disproportionately on women and often renders them lacking and unacknowledged in their labor. GENTLEWOMEN explores personal and historical trauma, bonds between mothers and sisters, and our estrangement from the natural world and from ourselves due to an exploitative and extractive relationship to land and peoples (human and otherwise). Through an allegorical envisioning of a world that is like our own but heightened through the individual lives and responsibilities of three sisters, Natura, Providentia, and Fortuna, the poems sound out in mourning and frustration-and try to imagine the world otherwise. A transformative journey through the shadows towards reconciliation both between sisters and with oneself.

Kaminski, Megan: - Megan Kaminski spent most of her childhood in Virginia. She has since lived in Los Angeles, Paris, Casablanca, New York and Portland, Oregon. Megan's first book of poetry, DESIRING MAP, was published by Coconut Books in 2012. She is also the author of six chapbooks: collection (Dusie, 2011), carry catastrophe (Grey Book Press, 2010), Across Soft Ruins (Scantily Clad Press, 2009), Favored Daughter (Dancing Girl Press, forthcoming), Gemology (LRL Textile Series, forthcoming) and The Prairie Opens Wide (La Ginestra, forthcoming). Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has been published in CutBank, DENVER QUARTERLY, Phoebe, Third Coast and other fine journals. She teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Kansas, where she directs the Creative Writing Exchange Program and the Undergraduate Reading Series.

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ISBN 13	9781934819913
ISBN 10	1934819913
Title	Gentlewomen
Author	Megan Kaminski
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Noemi Press
Year published	2020-10-15
Number of pages	81
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