Gentlewomen
By: Megan Kaminski
Publisher: Noemi Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: [Las Cruces, New Mexico]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
ISBN-13: 9781934819913
Subjects: Women; Poetry; Sex role; Sexual division of labor; Interpersonal relations; American poetry
Other titles: Gentle women
Description: The work of care falls disproportionately on women and often renders them lacking and unacknowledged in their labor. This volume explores personal and historical trauma, bonds between mothers and sisters, and our estrangement from the natural world and from ourselves due to an exploitative and extractive relationship to land and peoples (human and otherwise). Through an allegorical envisioning of a world that is like our own but heightened through the individual lives and responsibilities of three sisters, Natura, Providentia, and Fortuna, the poems sound out in mourning and frustration-and try to imagine the world otherwise. A transformative journey through the shadows towards reconciliation both between sisters and with oneself.