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| Title Statement | The outer wards / Sadiqa de Meijer. |
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| Author | De Meijer, Sadiqa, 1977- |
| Publication | Montréal, QC: Signal Editions, the poetry imprint at Véhicule Press,[2020]©2020 |
| Edition | Mass Market |
| Extent of Item | 76 pages ; |
| ISBN | 9781550655452 (paperback) |
| Other Number | pr05589687 |
| Summary | "The Outer Wards, Sadiqa de Meijer's new collection, explores questions of maternal love and duty -and the powerlessness that comes with the disruption of that role through illness. 'I was awake. / The hour was wrong' de Meijer writes, and her poems track, in visceral and tender detail, the distraction, exhaustion, exhilaration, and fear of child-rearing through crisis. For de Meijer, the experience was also a crisis of language, and the struggle to find new terms for her state. Addressed, in part, to a child she calls 'my grievous spectacle, / my dearest unpossessable,' The Outer Wards is everywhere marked by a joy in words -their quick-fire turns, sumptuous sounds, and nursery-rhyme seductions."-- |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Canadian poetry--Women authors |
| Canadian poetry--21st century | |
| Love, Maternal--Poetry | |
| Motherhood--Poetry | |
| Sick parents--Poetry | |
| By Genre | Poetry |
| Canadian poetry | |
