{"product_id":"the-kitchendwellers-testimony-9780803266865","title":"The KitchenDwellers Testimony","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of poems examines the varied ways women navigate gender roles, while examining praise for success within roles where imagination about female ability is limited. \u003cem\u003eThe Kitchen-Dweller's Testimony\u003c\/em\u003e is about love and longing, divorce, distilled desire, and all the ways we injure ourselves and one another.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In a world that too often plugs its ears to voices it thinks unworthy, Osman shows that it's actually more inappropriate to be decorous.\"—Kathleen Rooney, \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ladan Osman conveys a language and logic that is disturbingly fresh; it leaps from one observation to another and speaks familiarly yet obliquely enough to make us listen a little harder.\"—Wesley Rothman, \u003ci\u003eRain Taxi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I have rarely encountered a young poet whose work was so completely its own thing, was so little influenced by what trend might be elbowing itself forward on the writing campuses. Osman is a worldly and acutely sensitive writer who knows how to reach right through the sequined veil of fashion and put her hand squarely on the reader’s heart, with frank and candid expression, with unaffected wonder.”—from Ted Kooser’s preface to Ladan Osman’s chapbook, \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Heaven\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Ladan Osman] writes out of a passion for language, out of a compelling pleasure and challenge in the potential of the voice to humanize us, or perhaps even better, to affirm our humanity. Osman is a warrior poet, and she is dangerous because she is especially gifted and disciplined about her craft, her technical facility with the poem. This collection offers numerous examples of this skillfulness.”—from the foreword by Kwame Dawes\u003cbr\u003e“True visionary poets are very rare. Ladan Osman is one. What she sees is extraordinary, and needful.”—Brigit Pegeen Kelly, author of\u003ci\u003e Song \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Orchard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Foreword by Kwame Dawes    \u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments    \u003cbr\u003eSilhouette\u003cbr\u003eI\u003cbr\u003eOrdinary Heaven    \u003cbr\u003eWords We Lost in the Water    \u003cbr\u003eUnsolicited Witness    \u003cbr\u003eTo Abel    \u003cbr\u003eSugar    \u003cbr\u003eSection 8    \u003cbr\u003eThe Key    \u003cbr\u003eFirst Red Dress    \u003cbr\u003eAdmonitions    \u003cbr\u003eTwigs    \u003cbr\u003eVerse of Hairs    \u003cbr\u003eMy Father Drops His Larynx    \u003cbr\u003eDenotation    \u003cbr\u003eConnotation    \u003cbr\u003eParable of the Leaf    \u003cbr\u003eHow to Make a Shadow    \u003cbr\u003eII\u003cbr\u003eIntangible Quality    \u003cbr\u003eWomen Brewing    \u003cbr\u003eDiviner of Teacups    \u003cbr\u003eThe Kitchen-Dweller Presents Evidence    \u003cbr\u003eTrouble    \u003cbr\u003eHer House Is the Middle East    \u003cbr\u003eThat Which Scatters and Breaks Apart    \u003cbr\u003eInvocation    \u003cbr\u003eThe Kitchen-Dweller’s Interlude    \u003cbr\u003eThe Kitchen-Dweller Testifies    \u003cbr\u003eDesertion    \u003cbr\u003eThe Offended Tongue    \u003cbr\u003eWhen the Fire Is Not Enough    \u003cbr\u003eClearing the Land    \u003cbr\u003eSituations Wanted    \u003cbr\u003eThe Figures    \u003cbr\u003eConvoluted Mattress    \u003cbr\u003eWater    \u003cbr\u003eFor the Woman Whose Love Is a Bird of Passage    \u003cbr\u003eThe Man Who Puts Dirt on His Head    \u003cbr\u003eIII\u003cbr\u003eThe Glass Images    \u003cbr\u003eTo the Angel of Accounts on a Holy Night    \u003cbr\u003eTonight    \u003cbr\u003eVisitant    \u003cbr\u003eThe Pilgrims    \u003cbr\u003eWoman, Ego, Shadow    \u003cbr\u003eThe Woman in the Field    \u003cbr\u003eGnats    \u003cbr\u003eApparition One, Apparition Two    \u003cbr\u003eAmber Doll    \u003cbr\u003eKen    \u003cbr\u003eHotel Party    \u003cbr\u003ePrincess Di in an Afterlife    \u003cbr\u003eMy Brother Receives His Kingdom under a Tree    \u003cbr\u003eProud Flesh    \u003cbr\u003eThe Albatross Holds a Note in Her Bill    \u003cbr\u003eThe Trumpet Testifies    \u003cbr\u003eFollowing the Horn’s Call    \u003cbr\u003eThe Beetle    \u003cbr\u003eA Dove Sings for Young Lovers    \u003cbr\u003eWestern Gate    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405269410135,"sku":"9780803266865","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-kitchendwellers-testimony-9780803266865","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}