The Land of Milk and Honey

by Sarah Getty

Book Overview

Sarah Getty's poems represent the work of the New Woman, as the nineteenth century called her, now middle-aged, with daughters, private lives, and weathered marriages--but no male figure steps forward in any overshadowing role. Meditating on her own experience of girlhood, marriage, and the mothering of a daughter, Getty combines a feminist sensibility with a profound sense of connection to the natural and mythic realms from which the forces of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570031592
• ISBN13: 9781570031595
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 89 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"