Washing Windows Too

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The writers in Washing Windows Too have things on their minds that have exploded into that love-urgency that makes writers write. A poet may not always love her inspirational material, but those here revere the act of writing so much that honing their ideas, visions, and insights into poem-shaped, concrete objects has become crucial.

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The writers in Washing Windows Too have things on their minds that have exploded into that love-urgency that makes writers write. And, just as it should be, few subjects are off limits. A poet may not always love her inspirational material, but those here revere the act of writing so much that honing their ideas, visions, and insights into poem-shaped, concrete objects has become crucial. A poem can be a path into the deepest, purest self, and back out again?through the very act of writing?to a calmer, less frenetic place. Because poets deal with issues that concern them – universal truths, often?certain themes emerge, as they do in all anthologies. In Washing Windows Too, particular groupings of motifs recur and these include birth and motherhood; child-love and empty nests; migration and refugees; women’s power and agency; bodies, the male gaze, and violence; nature and its beauties; art, creation, and the act of writing itself; uneasy relationships; politics; health and illness; and grief and death. And, because we are living in the early twenty-twenties, the pandemic naturally features in some poems. This book reached No 3 in the Irish bestseller charts?an historic achievement.

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Weight 0.181 kg
Dimensions 20.3 × 12.7 × 1 cm
Book_author

Hayes, Alan

Publisher

Arlen House

Imprint

Arlen House

Cover

Paperback

Pages

128

Language

English

Edition
Dewey
Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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