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Steam Laundry (Paperback or Softback)
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- Condition
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- 9781597092289
- ISBN
- 1597092282
- Binding
- TP
- Book Title
- Steam Laundry
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Red Hen Press
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Genre
- Poetry
- Topic
- General
- Item Width
- 7in
- Item Weight
- 8.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 144 Pages
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Steam Laundry is a novel in poems based on the true story of Sarah Ellen Gibson, a miner s wife during the Klondike and Alaska gold rushes. Her journey began as she followed her husband to Dawson City, Yukon Territory in 1898. She stayed there three years as the town s boom and her marriage burned out. In 1903, she left her husband and sons to start over in Fairbanks, Alaska, with another man. Based on archival research and incorporating historical documents and photographs, the poems approach the past through the ghosts of correspondence. The poems, written in the voices of Gibson, her family members, and the people who knew her, take on love, loss, failure, and desire. Some confront the drama of failed marriages, troubled family relationships, and alcoholism. Others spin the dramatic details of hunting accidents and subarctic survival into compelling stories in verse. They embody the opposing voices of an era during which men and women struggled in different, but overlapping, universes. By staring at Gibson through the spectral lenses of the people around her, the documents she left behind, and the vision of a contemporary poet, the particulars of Gibson s life are transformed into an exploration of the people history usually forgets. Steam Laundry offers the reader the chance to try on the dusty, mining-town overcoat of Gibson s life.
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Publisher
Red Hen Press
ISBN-10
1597092282
ISBN-13
9781597092289
eBay Product ID (ePID)
112129997
Product Key Features
Book Title
Steam Laundry
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
144 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
7in
Item Weight
8.8 Oz
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"This collection of poems about those who came to the Yukon and Alaska over a century ago in search of gold and a better life is a compelling read. I could feel the bitter cold of the landscape and the desires and passions of the characters as I read poem after poem unable to put the book down until I reached the end. This is a book that deserves to be read." -Tom Sexton, former Poet Laureate of Alaska , " Steam Laundry is a great story, poems that work research into narrative art. These are the stories of the earth, broken for gold, and of the women whose work doing laundry made possible difficult but ambitious lives. One family goes in search of gold. We readers find gold here in this brilliant book that won't be put down!" --Hilda Raz, author of TRANS and What Happens, " Steam Laundry is a great story, poems that work research into narrative art. These are the stories of the earth, broken for gold, and of the women whose work doing laundry made possible difficult but ambitious lives. One family goes in search of gold. We readers find gold here in this brilliant book that won't be put down!" -Hilda Raz, author of TRANS and What Happens, "This collection of poems about those who came to the Yukon and Alaska over a century ago in search of gold and a better life is a compelling read. I could feel the bitter cold of the landscape and the desires and passions of the characters as I read poem after poem unable to put the book down until I reached the end. This is a book that deserves to be read." -Tom Sexton, former Poet Laureate of Alaska, "In O'Donnell's narrative of familial and social history, we experience Alaska--its financial and romantic allure--and the gender disparities that defined frontier reality in the early 20th century. Readers meet Sarah Ellen Gibson, her marriage "so new/I could hold it in my palm /like an egg still warm/ from the henhouse." We learn that "where men prospect, women wash" and witness Gibson's struggle to "wring/our living out of this frozen dirt." O'Donnell's research yields unsparing details that vivify daily life in the Yukon Territory; she honors women who build laundries and roadhouses, making a place for themselves under unrelenting emotional and physical conditions. This book-length sequence will hold you in its spell." --Robin Becker, author of Domain of Perfect Affection, "In O'Donnell's narrative of familial and social history, we experience Alaska-its financial and romantic allure-and the gender disparities that defined frontier reality in the early 20th century. Readers meet Sarah Ellen Gibson, her marriage "so new/I could hold it in my palm /like an egg still warm/ from the henhouse." We learn that "where men prospect, women wash" and witness Gibson's struggle to "wring/our living out of this frozen dirt." O'Donnell's research yields unsparing details that vivify daily life in the Yukon Territory; she honors women who build laundries and roadhouses, making a place for themselves under unrelenting emotional and physical conditions. This book-length sequence will hold you in its spell." -Robin Becker, author of Domain of Perfect Affection, "This collection of poems about those who came to the Yukon and Alaska over a century ago in search of gold and a better life is a compelling read. I could feel the bitter cold of the landscape and the desires and passions of the characters as I read poem after poem unable to put the book down until I reached the end. This is a book that deserves to be read." --Tom Sexton, former Poet Laureate of Alaska, "In O'Donnell's narrative of familial and social history, we experience Alaska--its financial and romantic allure--and the gender disparities that defined frontier reality in the early 20th century. Readers meet Sarah Ellen Gibson, her marriage "so new/I could hold it in my palm /like an egg still warm/ from the henhouse." We learn that "where men prospect, women wash" and witness Gibson's struggle to "wring/our living out of this frozen dirt." O'Donnell's research yields unsparing details that vivify daily life in the Yukon Territory; she honors women who build laundries and roadhouses, making a place for themselves under unrelenting emotional and physical conditions. This book-length sequence will hold you in its spell." --Robin Becker, author of Domain of Perfect Affection
Copyright Date
2012
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