Still Life With Mother And Knife: Poems

In this powerful collection, Chelsea Rathburn seeks to voice matters once deemed unspeakable, from collisions between children and predators to the realities of postpartum depression. Still Life with Mother and Knife considers the female body, ômute and posable,ö as object of both art and violence. Once an artistÆs model, now a mother, Rathburn knows ôhow hard / it is to be held in the eyes of another.ö Intimate and fearless, her poems move in interlocking sections between the pleasures and dangers of childhood, between masterpieces of art and magazine centerfolds, andùin a gripping sequence in dialogue with DelacroixÆs paintings and sketches of Medeaùbetween the twinned ferocities of maternal love and rage. With singular vision and potent poetic form, Rathburn crafts a complex portrait of girlhood and motherhood from which it is impossible to look away.

• | Author: Chelsea Rathburn
• | Publisher: Lsu Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 12, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 84 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Poetry
• | ISBN-10: 0807169749
• | ISBN-13: 9780807169742