Wet apples, white blood / / Naomi Guttman

• Autore: Guttman Naomi
• Pubblicazione: Montreal ; ; Ithaca, N.Y., : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 electronic text (81 p.) : digital file
• Disciplina: 811/.54
• Soggetto topico: Breastfeeding; Mother and child
• Note generali: Poems.
• Nota di contenuto: Prayer -- Because thrift is not always a virtue -- Daylight savings -- Spring -- Equinox -- Black forest -- Lot's wife -- Two rivers, Ontreal, 1669 -- Accident at Windsor Station, Montreal, Saint Patrick's day, 1909 -- Virtuoso -- X -- Summer sublet -- For rent -- Shadow -- Why we have lived so luckily -- Dream pockets -- Sleeping figures -- Mary's milk -- Mrs. A's vegetable stand -- Milk Muse -- Mother platypus -- Instructions for the child in the womb -- Inkling -- At the tomb of King Tut's wet nurse -- Angel maker -- Medea -- On the difference between boys and girls -- Hera -- Wind -- Urgent care -- Breather -- Ultrasounds -- Incident room -- Ward -- Real living -- The mend -- Autumn song -- Gestures of living -- Naming the children -- The whelping -- Katie flower -- Penguins at the ecodome -- Foreign exchange -- Day and night -- Girl in the butterfly house -- Amber song -- Goose Bay, Prince Edward Island -- The grass.
• Sommario/riassunto: Naomi Guttman's new poetry collection was inspired by the role of nursing in human evolution and culture. The first cycle of poems, "Wet Apples, White Blood," offers lyric glimpses into archetypes of breastfeeding women in history and myth. The dramatic action in the second cycle, "Galactopoesis," centers around the experience of a mother whose young child is hospitalized. Galactopoesis is the medical term for the continued secretion and production of milk. It derives from the Greek radicals for 'milk' (galacto) and 'making' (poesis), which is also 'poetry.' In Wet Apples, White Blood, nursing, as a constant creative act dependent on the baby's demand, is a trope for the creative process and for questions of biology, psychology, and spirituality.
• Titolo autorizzato: Wet apples, white blood
• ISBN: 0-7735-7873-0; 1-282-86761-X; 9786612867613; 0-7735-7716-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817450603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Hugh MacLennan poetry series.