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Fruitcake
Selima Hill

Fruitcake

Bloodaxe Books (May 10, 2009)
9781852248482
244 pages | 127 x 200 mm | English
Dewey 821.914
LC Classification PR6058.I4494 .F78 2009
LC Control No. 2009286732

Subject

  • Family & Relationships / Parenting / Motherhood
  • Motherhood
  • Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  • Poetry / General

Plot

"Fruitcake" brings together four poem sequences about motherhood by 'this brilliant lyricist of human darkness' (Fiona Sampson). "Bougainvillae" explores love and having a mother. "Nylon" is about happiness, and not having or being a mother. Then "Bunker Sacks" brings grace but also the shock of being a young mother. Finally, "Grunter" shows the impact of Asperger's syndrome on both mother and child. Like all of Selima Hill's books, "Fruitcake" charts 'extreme experience with a dazzling excess' (Deryn Rees-Jones), with startling humor and surprising combinations of homely and outlandish.