<p>The 20 poems in this series are further speculations on the Hansel and Gretel fable. They delve into the areas of emotions and motives in a dark and brooding voice to contrast the innocence of childhood versus the realism of a family in need. Since we are already familiar with the tale, the author expertly creates tension and intent by what she leaves out. These poems effectively extend the story and make it more contemporary.</p>

Nest Full of Cries

Carlson-Bradley, Martha

Adastra Press

<p>Poetry. From the author of the chapbook NEST FULL OF CRIES comes the new collection BEAST OF THE HEARTH. "Martha Carlson-Bradley understands that the power of fairy tales lies not in their distance from real human life but in their proximity to it. The desires, disguises, and disappointments in these poems are our kin, our kind. By stripping the tales to the most essential - but never predictable - details, she gives mythic revision a fresh, contemporary voice" - Jeanne Marie Beaumont. "While Martha Carlson-Bradley's material is volatile with submerged passion, her voice is cool and restrained, and her artistic command of language guides these poems along the arc of sexual and psychic awakening. This is a surprising and deeply satisfying collection" - Cynthia Huntington, Poet Laureate of New Hampshire.</p>

Beast at the Hearth

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

SEA CALLED FRUITFULNESS by Martha Carlson-Bradley is a collection of lyric poems responding to the 1651 lunar map that gave the Moon the "sea" names still in use today. As the narrator ponders the motivation and lives of the two seventeenth-century astronomers who created this map, she also explores terrains of achievement and failure, intimacy and solitude, celibacy and fertility, certainty and unknowing. " 'What interests me most about a work of art is the artist's quality of mind,' said Henry James famously. Add heart and spirit and engaging intersecting stories and you get what interests me most about Martha Carlson-Bradley's SEA CALLED FRUITFULNESS. What she teases out of the lives and life's work of two seventeenth-century Jesuit astronomers creates the character of the writer of this book that is itself a kind of moon map in which we vividly see our own very human faces. This picture is also a wonder, because Martha Carlson-Bradley draws it so well."-Michael Ryan

Sea Called Fruitfulness

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Begin with Trouble: Poems Inspired by the 1727 New-England Primer (The Hobblebush Granite State Short Story Series, 12)

Hobblebush Books

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