The Bower by Voisine, Connie
The Bower by Voisine, Connie

The Bower

How can a person come to understand wars and hatreds well enough to explain them truthfully to...
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SKU: 9780226613789
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Author: Connie Voisine
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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The Bower by Voisine, Connie

The Bower

$54.37
The Bower by Voisine, Connie

The Bower

$54.37
Author: Connie Voisine
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
How can a person come to understand wars and hatreds well enough to explain them truthfully to a child? The Bower engages this timeless and thorny question through a recounting of the poet-speaker's year in Belfast, Northern Ireland, with her young daughter. The speaker immerses herself in the history of Irish politics--including the sectarian conflict known as The Troubles--and gathers stories of a painful, divisive past from museum exhibits, newspapers, neighbors, friends, local musicians, and cabbies. Quietly meditative, brooding, and heart-wrenching, these poems place intimate moments between mother and daughter alongside images of nationalistic violence and the angers that underlie our daily interactions. A deep dive into sectarianism and forgiveness, this timely and nuanced book examines the many ways we are all implicated in the impulse to "protect our own" and asks how we manage the histories that divide us.

Author: Connie Voisine
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 03/08/2019
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780226613789

About the Author
Connie Voisine is professor of English at New Mexico State University. She is the author of three previous books of poems, most recently, Calle Florista, also published by the University of Chicago Press.



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