Her Festival Clothes: Volume 10

They become strange, forget/the ties that bound them to/a familiar world, forget their/underwear, their brassieres, their/bodies/demanding comfort now, after the/fierce holding of appearances, family, /all the animate world, on course: /pilots who must navigate over/mountain ridges, vast oceans./At last they furl their sails, /undo the lines. Their bodies /lose shape, their skin shrivels, they moor themselves to the walls /of small rooms, appear to sleep. /Sometimes in the dark, their bodies shiver, the slight motion /of a chrysalis in winte

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Mavis Jones

Product details

• Authors: Mavis Jones
• Publisher: Mcgill-Queen's University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2001
• EAN: 9780773519091
• ISBN: 978-0-7735-1909-1
• No. of pages: 78
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 192 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 127 g
• Series: The Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series; Hugh MacLennan Poetry; Hugh Maclennan Poetry Series; Hugh MacLennan Poetry
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)