Comfort

Comfort is a taut poetic synthesis of female embodiment in history. Combining women's journals of the 1910s and 1920s with testimonials about Great Plains agriculture, Sarah Heady seeks through found and invented language to harmonize these lived realities (and fictions) with the artifacts of local custom and lore. Imagine Emily Dickinson not as an Amherst resident but as a settler of the American Midwest: the lyricism and vision of Comfort confirm Heady as an astute reader of human experience and transmitter of an understanding deeper than one encounters in typical histories or chronicles. It's the voice of the body encountering life on the Plains, a woman with eyes wide open finding words to imprint the soil with her presence. And it's the story of female agency negotiating the mythic, often male frontier past, opening it to the profound insights of dailiness and embodiment--

Author: Sarah Heady

Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil Publishing

Publication Date: Oct 01, 2022

Number of Pages: 112 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback/Poetry

ISBN-10: 1952419778

ISBN-13: 9781952419775