Mrs. Dumpty: Volume 1998

by Chana Bloch

Book Overview

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 life: 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299160041
• ISBN13: 9780299160043
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.5" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Well written and consistent

This book of poems by Chana Bloch (Hah-nuh Block) is an excellent insight into the mind of a woman whose husband slowly contracted mental disease. The poems all center around this topic--being the wife a mentally ill man and the impact in had on her emotional well-being. The majority of the poems are stories told from her marriage and fall in chronological order. Ms. Bloch is a master of metaphor and it is fun to try and interpret what she was thinking and picturing in her mind as she wrote these poems. The only downer is that there are only about 60 pages of material, but definitely one to check out.