The Land of Milk and Honey

Meditating on her own experience of girlhood, marriage, and the mothering of a daughter, Getty combines a feminist outlook with a lively sense of connection to the natural and mythic realms from which the forces of generation emerge. Her poems, centered in domestic suburbia, range outward through those ancient realms and backward through the history of her family's women. Getty is concerned to explore the losses and absences of the spirit as rehearsed by the flesh, its old enemy and friend. In doing so she reveals a startling sense of humor, which is another way of saying that she has come to terms with reality. These poems - spirited, thoughtful, autonomous - reflect her response to that reality.

About the author

Sarah Getty grew up near Chicago, attended Stanford University, and received a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Pennsylvania. The manager of foundation and government support at the Museum of Science in Boston, Getty lives with her husband in Bedford, Massachusetts. Her poetry has appeared in the Paris Review, Shenandoah, and Western Humanities Review and in two anthologies.

Summary

Meditating on her own experience of girlhood, marriage, and the mothering of a daughter, Getty combines a feminist sensibility with a sense of connection to the realms from which the forces of generation emerge. The poems, range outward and backward through the history of her family's women.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Getty
• Publisher: The University of South Carolina Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.1996
• EAN: 9781570031595
• ISBN: 978-1-57003-159-5
• No. of pages: 89
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 7 mm
• Weight: 136 g
• Series: James Dickey Contemporary Poet; James Dickey Contemporary Poet; James Dickey Contemporary Poetry
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies