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Eve's Striptease (Pitt Poetry Series)
Julia Spicher Kasdor
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Description for Eve's Striptease (Pitt Poetry Series)
Paperback. These narrative and lyric poems celebrate desire, marriage, and domestic life; they visit sexual terror and consider sickness and death. Constructing all of life as a journey that takes us from innocence to knowledge, this work suggests the maps we need may be found on our bodies. Series: Pitt Poetry Series. Num Pages: 90 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 152 x 7. Weight in Grams: 163.
As its title proclaims, Eve’s Striptease delivers a female voice that seeks to “find out for (her)self/ all the desires a body can hold.” Through artful acts of revelation and concealment, these poems test experience against the notions of love and loss that tradition and religion have taught us. These narrative and lyric poems celebrate desire, marriage, and domestic life; they visit sexual terror and consider sickness and death. Construing all of life as a journey that takes us from innocence to knowledge, this work suggests that the maps that we need for this journey may be found written on ... Read more
As its title proclaims, Eve’s Striptease delivers a female voice that seeks to “find out for (her)self/ all the desires a body can hold.” Through artful acts of revelation and concealment, these poems test experience against the notions of love and loss that tradition and religion have taught us. These narrative and lyric poems celebrate desire, marriage, and domestic life; they visit sexual terror and consider sickness and death. Construing all of life as a journey that takes us from innocence to knowledge, this work suggests that the maps that we need for this journey may be found written on ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Condition
New
Series
Pitt Poetry Series
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Pittsburgh PA, United States
ISBN
9780822956686
SKU
V9780822956686
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About Julia Spicher Kasdor
Julia Spicher Kasdorf is associate professor of English and women’s studies at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of two previous poetry collections: Eve’s Striptease and Sleeping Preacher. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Paris Re
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