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Why the house is made of gingerbread: poems

By Haymon , Ava Leavell

Book information

Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9780807135853, 9780807135860, 0807135852, 0807135860
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (3696721 bytes)
Pages
58 Seiten\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
American poetry--21st century;American poetry;Amer

Description

In Ava Leavell Haymon's third collection, an unremarkable, harried, contemporary woman named Gretel finds herself at midlife overtaken by the Grimms' household tale Hansel and Gretel. The violence and terror in that story supplant the memory of her own childhood, and the fairy tale retells itself in a sharp succession of surprising poems. The witch, the sugar house, Gretel's brother, her passive father, his cruel second wife, the sinister forest—all these and more rise like jazz motifs to play themselves in the present. Addressing themes such as hunger, child abuse, betrayal, cannibalism, and murder in a tone by turns disturbing and humorous, Why the House Is Made of Gingerbread is most certainly not a book for children.

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