| The Counting House Contributor(s): Ridley, Sandra (Author) |
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ISBN: 1927040841 ISBN-13: 9781927040843 Publisher: Book*hug Press OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Canadian - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2013414639 |
| Series: Book Thug Tradebooks |
| Physical Information: 0.2" H x 5.9" W x 7.8" (0.20 lbs) 96 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Akin to a bookkeeper's accounting of what's given and taken in a fraught, uncertain exchange, The Counting House goes on to record the pageantry and pedantry of courtly affection gone awry. Symbols and origins of traditional rhymes involving kings and queens serve as inventory, alongside elements of Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish and Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex. In forensic sequences of inquisition, scrutiny, and reckoning, Ridley reveals the maiden as muse as modern darling 1/2 unhoused and exacting 1/2 in all of her violet forms. |
Contributor Bio(s): Ridley, Sandra: - Multiple-award-winning poet, instructor, and editor Sandra Ridley is the author of three books of poetry: Fallout, winner of a 2010 Saskatchewan Book Award and the Alfred G. Bailey Prize; Post- Apothecary, finalist for the ReLit and Archibald Lampman Awards; and THE COUNTING HOUSE (BookThug, 2013), finalist for the Archibald Lampman Award and chosen as one of the top five poetry books of 2013 in Quill & Quire's Readers' Poll. In 2015, Ridley was a finalist for the KM Hunter Artist Award for Literature. She lives in Ottawa. |