Cadence

Fiction & Literature, Poetry
Cover of the book Cadence by Hannah Stephenson, The Kent State University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Hannah Stephenson ISBN: 9781631013430
Publisher: The Kent State University Press Publication: March 13, 2018
Imprint: The Kent State University Press Language: English
Author: Hannah Stephenson
ISBN: 9781631013430
Publisher: The Kent State University Press
Publication: March 13, 2018
Imprint: The Kent State University Press
Language: English

Having children fundamentally disrupts and remakes us, in terms of body, identity, perspective, and voice. The world shrinks and exponentially expands. Our already fraught human experience of time is shredded and magnified.

Cadence captures the poet’s point of view as a new mother, reveling in a position of heightened vulnerability and ferocity. The poems in this chapbook are breathless, hyperattentive to others’ needs, and equally in love with earthliness and repulsed by the monstrousness we enact/bear witness to.

The central tenets of this chapbook: ideas of the body, pregnancy, and motherhood; how becoming a parent destabilizes the self; local anxieties (What if my child doesn’t eat enough? How will I ever sleep again?) and global anxieties (How do we respond to these tumultuous times, full of such hate, racism, and xenophobia? How do we help?); and the ever-deepening desire to protect those who are (increasingly) threatened.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

Having children fundamentally disrupts and remakes us, in terms of body, identity, perspective, and voice. The world shrinks and exponentially expands. Our already fraught human experience of time is shredded and magnified.

Cadence captures the poet’s point of view as a new mother, reveling in a position of heightened vulnerability and ferocity. The poems in this chapbook are breathless, hyperattentive to others’ needs, and equally in love with earthliness and repulsed by the monstrousness we enact/bear witness to.

The central tenets of this chapbook: ideas of the body, pregnancy, and motherhood; how becoming a parent destabilizes the self; local anxieties (What if my child doesn’t eat enough? How will I ever sleep again?) and global anxieties (How do we respond to these tumultuous times, full of such hate, racism, and xenophobia? How do we help?); and the ever-deepening desire to protect those who are (increasingly) threatened.

More books from The Kent State University Press

Cover of the book Recollections of a Civil War Medical Cadet by Hannah Stephenson
Cover of the book War, Memory, and the 1913 Gettysburg Reunion by Hannah Stephenson
Cover of the book An Artist of the American Renaissance by Hannah Stephenson
Cover of the book Inscribing My Name by Hannah Stephenson
Cover of the book May 4th Voices by Hannah Stephenson
Cover of the book NATO before the Korean War by Hannah Stephenson
Cover of the book Letters from the Spanish Civil War by Hannah Stephenson
Cover of the book Democratic Narrative, History, and Memory by Hannah Stephenson
Cover of the book C. S. Lewis in Context by Hannah Stephenson
Cover of the book Struggle for the Shenandoah by Hannah Stephenson
Cover of the book Reading the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Hannah Stephenson
Cover of the book The Lazarus Method by Hannah Stephenson
Cover of the book Musical Mysteries by Hannah Stephenson
Cover of the book There Would Always Be a Fairy Tale by Hannah Stephenson
Cover of the book What is Translation? by Hannah Stephenson
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy