{"product_id":"defrees-madeline-blue-duskpb","title":"DeFrees, Madeline: Blue Dusk: New \u0026 Selected Poems, 1951-2001","description":"\u003cp\u003eCopper Canyon Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: November 01, 2001\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContradiction and ambiguity are essential to the poetry of Madeline DeFrees. Her work is concentrated, multi-layered, spliced with humor and characterized by a passionate interest in every aspect of words: their literal and figurative meanings and associations; their histories, usage, disappearances, and resurrections. In her recent poems she approaches complex subjects with a new clarity, the dividend of a long investment in the art of writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJust as her poetry demands distance from personal biography and revelation, it is also deeply affected by her own life story, most profoundly her 38-year tenure as a nun. Throughout her writing career--from her early poems written under the name Sister Mary Gilbert, to her newest ones in which she casts a lifelong glance back through history and lineage--the need to reclaim individual identity is balanced against the relinquishment of the self.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eGoing Back to the Convent\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat was I running from\u003cbr\u003eor into? The uneasy light of the senior\u003cbr\u003eprom? Mother's dream of a a child bride, supported by\u003cbr\u003epennies from heaven? Or was it the writing\u003cbr\u003elife laid as a sacrifice to a jealous god\u003cbr\u003eon the tomb of the woman\u003cbr\u003eI'd hoped to become?\u003cbr\u003eWhatever it was, it will soon\u003cbr\u003eBe over. I write this now to reclaim it.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817232642071,"sku":"9781556591662","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/81AupuZB_LL._SL1500.jpg?v=1773528361","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/defrees-madeline-blue-duskpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}