Cadence

Hannah Stephenson

Description

Having children fundamentally disrupts and remakes us, in terms of body, identity, perspective, and voice. The world shrinks and exponentially expands. Our already fraught human experience of time is shredded and magnified.Cadence captures the poet's point of view as a new mother, reveling in a position of heightened vulnerability and ferocity. The poems in this chapbook are breathless, hyperattentive to others' needs, and equally in love with earthliness and repulsed by the monstrousness we enact/bear witness to.The central tenets of this chapbook: ideas of the body, pregnancy, and motherhood; how becoming a parent destabilizes the self; local anxieties (What if my child doesn't eat enough? How will I ever sleep again?) and global anxieties (How do we respond to these tumultuous times, full of such hate, racism, and xenophobia? How do we help?); and the ever-deepening desire to protect those who are (increasingly) threatened.

Sujets

• Poetry

Informations

• Publié par: The Kent State University Press
• Date de parution: 13 mars 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781631013430
• Langue: English

Extrait

CADENCE
WICK POETRY CHAPBOOK SERIES FIVE
Catherine Wing, Editor
Poppy Seeds · Allison Davis
Here Both Sweeter · Daniel Carter
I Left My Wings on a Chair · Karen Schubert
Determinant · Alex Fabrizio
Local Fauna · Brian Brodeur
Little Nest · Diana Lueptow
Seven Boxes for the Country After · Janet McAdams
Punctum: · Lesley Jenike
Cadence · Hannah Stephenson
CADENCE
Poems by Hannah Stephenson

The Kent State University Press
Kent, Ohio
© 2018 by Hannah Stephenson
All rights reserved
ISBN 978-1-60635-350-9
Manufactured in the United States of America
The Wick Poetry Series is sponsored in part by the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University.
Cataloging information for this title is available at the Library of Congress.
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for Henson
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Bikini Season
Swap Places
Cadence
Nesting
Sagittarius
You Were Early
Dream Feed
Novices
This Is Snow
Lullaby
Rocker
The New Oath
Smash Cake
Dandelion
Still Crying
Theorems and Proofs
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Earlier versions of “Novices” and “Rocker” appear in UCity Review . “Nesting” and “Dream Feed” appear in sidereal magazine . “Dandelion” appears in Gold Wake Live . My thanks to these publications!
“Theorems and Proofs” draws from the classic book, I Am a Bunny (written by Ole Risom, illustrated by Richard Scarry, and originally published in 1963). It is one of the most perfect and poetic children’s books, in my view, and was also my favorite growing up.
I am so grateful to everyone at the Wick Poetry Center for their support of these poems. Enormous thanks to Catherine Wing for her generous, essential edits and guidance. Thank you to my friends and family for their unwavering love and support. Thank you to Marcus, who challenges and inspires me to be braver and more open; I am grateful for such a loving husband, parenting partner, and dada to Henson. And thank you to my darling Henson, without whom these poems could not exist.