In Motherhouse, Kathleen Jesme takes the reader on a journey with a young novice through the heart of Mystery. Jesme's poems, which investigate religious life in a convent in the 1960s, are assembled from many fragments: juxtapositions of place and time (childhood and novitiate), shifting scale (the minuteness of an old beige comb from home, the boundlessness of a three-axled God), and varying poetic forms. Jesme explores the hidden, the provisional,...
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