Life in handkerchiefs / Rachel Blau DuPlessis.

9781733516976

Cincinnati, OH : Materialist Press, 2023.

©2022

iv, 111 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

BEIN Zab D9265 2023L: Paperbound.

Edited by Ariel Resnikoff and Rivka Weinstock; designed by Julia Warner.

"Life in handkerchiefs is a tale of female life via vintage hankies mingled with poems and meditations, along with crocheted edging, lace, artificial flower trimmings, and various notions. This book is about growing up in the category 'female,' resultant curiosities, bizarre vagaries of gender, body thoughts, the quotidian, mother-daughter relationships, life span, and historical and inner life along with a sense (always vital to DuPlessis's work) of the mystery and oddity of existence ..."--Page 4 of cover.

English

July 20, 2023

Poetry.

United States Ohio Cincinnati.