Blameless Mouth (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780615417486)

Can we teeter together, on the knife's edge of having and wanting? In Blameless Mouth, Jessica Fox-Wilson asks this question, by exploring the cycle of hunger, consumption and satiety. The collection traces the poet's relationship with hunger from childhood to womanhood, uncovering what it means to feel forever wanting. Her work also considers the cultural legacy of hunger, through stories of starving children and hungry women, like Hansel and Gretel, Persephone, Eve, and others. Blameless Mouth illuminates the struggle of living daily with the contradictory pressures to want less but take more and searches for satiety in a culture that encourages insatiability.

Author: Jessica Fox-Wilson
ISBN-10: 0615417485
ISBN-13: 9780615417486
Publisher: Everything Feeds Process Press
Language: English
Published: 01/23/2011
Pages: 100
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24d