Washing Windows Too Irish Women Write Poetry |
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Editor:
| Hayes, Alan O'Connor, Nuala |
ISBN: | 978-1-85132-311-1 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2023 |
Publisher: | Arlen House
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $22.95 |
Book Description:
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The writers in
Washing Windows Too have things on their minds that have exploded into that love-urgency that makes writers write. And, just as it should be, few subjects are off limits. A poet may not always love her inspirational material, but those here revere the act of writing so much that honing their ideas, visions, and insights into poem-shaped, concrete objects has become crucial. A poem can be a path into the deepest, purest self, and back out again--through the very...
More DescriptionThe writers in Washing Windows Too have things on their minds that have exploded into that love-urgency that makes writers write. And, just as it should be, few subjects are off limits. A poet may not always love her inspirational material, but those here revere the act of writing so much that honing their ideas, visions, and insights into poem-shaped, concrete objects has become crucial. A poem can be a path into the deepest, purest self, and back out again--through the very act of writing--to a calmer, less frenetic place. Because poets deal with issues that concern them - universal truths, often--certain themes emerge, as they do in all anthologies. In Washing Windows Too, particular groupings of motifs recur and these include birth and motherhood; child-love and empty nests; migration and refugees; women's power and agency; bodies, the male gaze, and violence; nature and its beauties; art, creation, and the act of writing itself; uneasy relationships; politics; health and illness; and grief and death. And, because we are living in the early twenty-twenties, the pandemic naturally features in some poems. This book reached No 3 in the Irish bestseller charts--an historic achievement.