Helene

by Deborah Poe

Poetry. "Deborah Poe's 19th century heroine Helene finds herself in the elaborate trap of a 'factory-convent, ' manufacturing silk in western France and her only release is the fantasy of producing it, instead, in China. Poe handles the implications and associations of these very different worlds with wrenching clarity. But finally, it is language 'We all our song within which voice finds its own escape' that offers the window through which Helene,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0982629982
• ISBN13: 9780982629987
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Furniture Press Books
• Length: 60 Pages