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"The poems in Sweeping Beauty are like prequels to an archaeological dig--real voices recording the nature of our lives before the crockery is buried in lava, before the house is tumbled by quake or quiet centuries. The poets in this collection often mix themes of writing with their images of house-work, acknowledging poetry's recognition of our most basic needs and our efforts to resist them, our longing for order and chaos both, our endless fascination with how our lives can be stirred, swept, polished, and then undone all over again. What a treasure--to find these poems which take as their source our daily lives, and discover there profound insight, energy, transformation."--Betsy Sholl "Gemin's book embraces women's 'domesticity, ' owns it, and stresses its transformative power. Sweeping Beauty explores the role of women in the home place, how they've found both confinement and comfort there, how they've learned from and departed from the lives of their female ancestors who have swept so many floors, baked so much bread, and hung so much wash on the line. The book celebrates 'women's work' and highlights its connection to myths and fables of cultures throughout the world."--Mary Swander, author of The Desert Pilgrim: En Route to Mysticism and Miracles Gemin's book embraces women's 'domesticity, ' owns it, and stresses its transformative power. Sweeping Beauty explores the role of women in the home place, how they've found both confinement and comfort there, how they've learned from and departed from the lives of their female ancestors who have swept so many floors, baked so much bread, and hung so much wash on the line. The book celebrates 'women's work' and highlights its connection to myths and fables of cultures throughout the world. --Mary Swander, author of The Desert Pilgrim: En Route to Mysticism and Miracles" The poems in Sweeping Beauty are like prequels to an archaeological dig--real voices recording the nature of our lives before the crockery is buried in lava, before the house is tumbled by quake or quiet centuries. The poets in this collection often mix themes of writing with their images of house-work, acknowledging poetry's recognition of our most basic needs and our efforts to resist them, our longing for order and chaos both, our endless fascination with how our lives can be stirred, swept, polished, and then undone all over again. What a treasure--to find these poems which take as their source our daily lives, and discover there profound insight, energy, transformation. --Betsy Sholl"
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Thankless, mundane, and ""never done,"" housework continues to be seen as women's work, and contemporary women poets are still writing the domestic experience - sometimes resenting its futility and lack of social rewards, sometimes celebrating its sensory delights and immediate gratification, sometimes cherishing the undeniable link it provides to their mothers and grandmothers. In Sweeping Beauty, a number of these poets illustrate how housekeeping's repetitive motions can free the imagination and release the housekeeper's muse. For many, housekeeping provides the key to a state of mind approaching meditation, a state of mind also conducive to making poems. The more than eighty contributors to Sweeping Beauty embrace this state and confirm that women are pioneers and inventors as well as life-givers and nurturers. ""My fingers are forks, my tongue is a rose...I turn silver spoons into rabbit stew/make quinces my thorny upholstery...how else could the side of beef walk/with the sea urchin roe?"" sings the cook in Natasha Saje's ode to kitchen alchemy. ""I love the notion that we can take our most poisonous angers, our most despairing or humiliated or stalemated moments, and make something good of them - something tensile and enduring,"" says Leslie Ullman. Whether we are fully present in our tasks or ""gone in the motion"" of performing them, whether our stove tops are home to ""stewpots of discontent"" or grandmother's favorite jam, something is always cooking.
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