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Window for a Small Blue Child
Gerrie Fellows
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Description for Window for a Small Blue Child
Paperback. Tells the story of the poet's experience of in vitro fertilisation. This book presents a sequence of poems underscored by the seasons and by the biological clock of a woman in her forties as she navigates the risks and choices, the drugs and rituals of fertility treatment. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 135 x 6. Weight in Grams: 114.
"Window for a Small Blue Child" is the story of the poet's experience of in vitro fertilisation, a sequence of poems underscored by the seasons and by the biological clock of a woman in her forties as she navigates the risks and choices, the drugs and rituals of fertility treatment. In a voice which moves between narrative and image, between lyrical experience and medical text she explores what it is to be engaged with a technique so much of which is enacted in a woman's body yet which takes its name from forty-eight hours of events in a lab. In ... Read more
"Window for a Small Blue Child" is the story of the poet's experience of in vitro fertilisation, a sequence of poems underscored by the seasons and by the biological clock of a woman in her forties as she navigates the risks and choices, the drugs and rituals of fertility treatment. In a voice which moves between narrative and image, between lyrical experience and medical text she explores what it is to be engaged with a technique so much of which is enacted in a woman's body yet which takes its name from forty-eight hours of events in a lab. In ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857548884
SKU
V9781857548884
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-25
About Gerrie Fellows
Gerrie Fellows was born in New Zealand but now lives in Scotland. She trained as a painter at art schools in London and before working in various countries as a life model, a secretary and a writer in residence. Her previous poetry collections include The Duntroon Toponymy (pamphlet, 2001), The Powerlines (2000) and Technologies and Other Poems (1990). Her work ... Read more
Reviews for Window for a Small Blue Child
'Though her work is often eloquent and moving, Gerrie Fellows is not afraid to be austere, and she is never tempted by mere effect. Reading Window for a Small Blue Child, we discover a poet who understands that bodies are both magical and treacherous, and she illuminates both the magic and the treachery in lyrics of grace, restraint and a ... Read more