^ Her Festival Clothes

Jones, Mavis

ISBN 10: 0773519092 / ISBN 13: 9780773519091

Published by McGill Queens Univ Press, Montreal, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: ^ Her Festival Clothes
• Publisher: McGill Queens Univ Press, Montreal
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0773519092
• ISBN 13: 9780773519091
• Binding: Wrappers
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

They become strange, forget/the ties that bound them to/a familiar world, forget their/underwear, their brassieres, their/bodies/demanding comfort now, after the/fierce holding of appearances, family,/all the animate world, on course:/pilots who must navigate over/mountain ridges, vast oceans./At last they furl their sails, /undo the lines. Their bodies /lose shape, their skin shrivels, they moor themselves to the walls /of small rooms, appear to sleep. /Sometimes in the dark, their bodies shiver, the slight motion /of a chrysalis in winter.

About the Author

Jones writes short fiction and poetry.