num_pages: 80
description: The poems in Mrs. Dumpty are about “a great fall,” the dissolution of a long and loving marriage, but they are not simply documentary or elegiac. What interests Chana Bloch is the inner how we are formed by our losses and our parents’ losses, how we learn what we need to know through our intuitions and confusions, how we deny and delay and finally discover who we are.
language: English
title: Mrs. Dumpty (Volume 1998)
titlecomplete: Mrs. Dumpty (Volume 1998) (Wisconsin Poetry Series)
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 27
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: California Book Award
category: Poetry (Silver)
publisher: University of Wisconsin Press