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I Stand Here Shredding Documents
A poetry chapbook.
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Published January 1, 2011
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October 20, 2011
I really enjoyed this chapbook, which I've been reading piecemeal for some time and wrote about in my blog upon a re-reading of the whole book.
http://kathleenkirkpoetry.blogspot.co...
It was fun to encounter some of these poems separately in some of Berkey-Abbott's own blog entries, as she provided them as a sort of commentary on her own day, or as connection to her own thoughts that day. Then, to read them grouped as a whole was a new experience. They did work as a whole to comment on and connect human experience over time, and particularly women's experience, sometimes sifted through myth and fairy tale (the latter still so dominant in women's experience of culture).
The poems include tight sonnets and free verse, use humor and plain language, and are unabashedly personal when that is the best way to connect. The poet honors Tillie Olsen well in this, and in the title. And you get a sense of fun (and the tedium of hard work) from the cover: a woman slumped over an ironing board in the kitchen; on it, a document shredder.
This is a Finishing Line Press book, saddle-staped, but a blue spine ribbon and black endpapers. If you order it, your copy might be a variation on this, as they use the ribbons and papers available at the time of binding, based on the authors' preferences.
http://kathleenkirkpoetry.blogspot.co...
It was fun to encounter some of these poems separately in some of Berkey-Abbott's own blog entries, as she provided them as a sort of commentary on her own day, or as connection to her own thoughts that day. Then, to read them grouped as a whole was a new experience. They did work as a whole to comment on and connect human experience over time, and particularly women's experience, sometimes sifted through myth and fairy tale (the latter still so dominant in women's experience of culture).
The poems include tight sonnets and free verse, use humor and plain language, and are unabashedly personal when that is the best way to connect. The poet honors Tillie Olsen well in this, and in the title. And you get a sense of fun (and the tedium of hard work) from the cover: a woman slumped over an ironing board in the kitchen; on it, a document shredder.
This is a Finishing Line Press book, saddle-staped, but a blue spine ribbon and black endpapers. If you order it, your copy might be a variation on this, as they use the ribbons and papers available at the time of binding, based on the authors' preferences.
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