The Distaff Side - Leader, Mary
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"Needlework, as this brilliant book makes plain, has been trivialized and dismissed as mere "women's work." The poems here, however, present the powerful counterpoint that work with the needle, from the flame-stitch to embroidery, is both a skill and a foundation for female artistic expression. It is a hands-on art, passed from woman to woman through the generations. Such passage also entails the vital connections to selfhood, history, meaning, and wisdom. This is a book that syllable by syllable as if stitch by stitch, creates patterns that exceed the confines of artistic form by reclaiming…mehr

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"Needlework, as this brilliant book makes plain, has been trivialized and dismissed as mere "women's work." The poems here, however, present the powerful counterpoint that work with the needle, from the flame-stitch to embroidery, is both a skill and a foundation for female artistic expression. It is a hands-on art, passed from woman to woman through the generations. Such passage also entails the vital connections to selfhood, history, meaning, and wisdom. This is a book that syllable by syllable as if stitch by stitch, creates patterns that exceed the confines of artistic form by reclaiming form and redefining it, with a total effect that is affirming and transcendent. What a joy it is to inhabit this world in which the needle and the pen share the labors of love. After all, love is a most subversive expression. This book is proof." -Maurice Manning
Autorenporträt
Mary Leader began writing poems in the midst of a career as a lawyer in her home state of Oklahoma. She made a second career teaching poetry as well as literature and is currently Professor Emerita at Purdue University. She has returned to Oklahoma to live and means to stay there from now on. In the United States, she has been the recipient of two major awards, the National Poetry Series and the University of Iowa Prize. She has completed a fifth book, called Myrtle, haunted by girls' names, and by trees; her out-of-print early collections will be re-issued by Shearsman in due course.