Description
Book SynopsisMedrie Purdham's
Little Housewolf delves deeply into the world of domestic miniatures, a realm where thimbles, baby teeth, push pins, keyholes, teacups, and wedding rings become meticulously realized scale models of one’s terrors and joys. Purdham uses the fine-grained signatures of her poetry—close observation, exact detail, precise sounds—not only to examine childhood and its fascination with size and scale, but also to measure herself against the larger, untamed landscapes she feels increasingly alienated from (“It is all anachronism, / grasses vintage wild"). Marked by bold emotion and arresting imagery,
Little Housewolf is a brilliant debut.
Trade Review"These are poems that shift and tilt on their axis. The writing unsettles and settles the reader, telescopes us in and out. What I loved most here was the weight of the saying: how the author was in a felt-state, communicating from out of language's depths. There is ample craft here and a sense of the pulse of the living, breathing (and brilliant) world." -- Aislinn Hunter
