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9780299317348 Academic Inspection Copy

The Explosive Expert's Wife

  • ISBN-13: 9780299317348
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS
  • By Shara Lessley
  • Price: AUD $39.99
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  • Local release date: 29/05/2018
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 88 pages Weight: 158g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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In sparse, powerful lines, Shara Lessley recalls an expat's displacement, examines her experience as a mother, and offers intimate witness to the unfolding of the Arab Spring. Veering from the strip malls and situation rooms of Washington to the markets and mines of Amman, Lessley confronts the pressures and pleasures of other cultures, exploring our common humanity with all its aggressions, loves, biases, and contradictions.
Shara Lessley is the author of Two-Headed Nightingale. Her awards include a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, and a Diane Middlebrook Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The coeditor of The Poem's Country: Place and Poetic Practice, she lives in Oxford, England.
"Lessley's poetry tunes our eyes and ears to recognize that each of us not only holds within ourselves the capacity to inflict terror upon one another, but the capability to endure it as well. This work exhorts us to become numb to neither."-Consequence
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