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Threshold (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)
Jennifer Richter
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Description for Threshold (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)
Paperback. Presents a series of poems that explore the many facets of the term threshold. This title includes gripping lyric and prose poems that explore duality in its many forms: the private, contemplative world versus a world of action; the mirror sides of health and sickness; and, the warmth of a June sun and the deep, long nights of winter. Series Editor(s): Tribble, Jon. Num Pages: 88 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 159.
Jennifer Richter presents a series of poems that explore the many facets of the term ""threshold."" Throughout the collection, the narrator experiences several acts of threshing, or separating—from birth and the small yet profound distances that part a mother and child, to the separation caused by illness and its toll on relationships. At the same time, she is progressively gathering, piecing together the remnants of her life, collecting her children into her arms, and welcoming a future without pain. Pain is often present in these poems, as the narrator frequently confronts her own threshold for enduring a ravaging illness. Her ... Read more
Jennifer Richter presents a series of poems that explore the many facets of the term ""threshold."" Throughout the collection, the narrator experiences several acts of threshing, or separating—from birth and the small yet profound distances that part a mother and child, to the separation caused by illness and its toll on relationships. At the same time, she is progressively gathering, piecing together the remnants of her life, collecting her children into her arms, and welcoming a future without pain. Pain is often present in these poems, as the narrator frequently confronts her own threshold for enduring a ravaging illness. Her ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809329656
SKU
V9780809329656
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Ref
99-15
About Jennifer Richter
Jennifer Richter was awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship in Poetry by Stanford University, where she taught in the Creative Writing Program for four years. Her work has appeared in The Missouri Review, Crab Orchard Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, Open City, and in the anthology A Fierce Brightness: Twenty-five Years of Women’s Poetry. She currently teaches poetry in elementary ... Read more
Reviews for Threshold (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)
"Threshold sparkles with a shaped brilliance....To cross the threshold is to (pro)claim the metaphysical that resides in the everyday." - Yusef Komunyakaa, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and author of Warhorses: Poems "Threshold is a testament to Richter's strength as a skilled and courageous poet determined to tell it in luminous verse, no matter what." - Dorianne Laux, ... Read more