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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Now in her mid-40s, Mairs, an essayist and poet, recalls the past in lyrical descriptions of her home and loving kin in New England, as well as the house in Arizona where she settled later with her husband and children. But readers may not get far past the threshhold of understanding the "bone house," as the author regards her body. Mairs ( Plaintext ; In All the Rooms of the Yellow House ) is a person of accomplishments, coping with multiple sclerosis and recovering from suicide attempts and other ills to succeed as a college teacher as well as a writer. Yet her book loses much of its zest because of her incessant repetition, in eventually wearisome detail, of her sexual adventures with many men and her brief affair with a woman. Though Mairs believes these experiences were necessary to create erotic poetry--the linchpin of her life--the lurid effects drown her poet's voice and seem more exploitative than revelatory.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Colored by experience, mind and body together shape and are reshaped by one's personal memories; for women, many have argued, it is the dimension of space, rather than the masculine dimension of time, that is life's primary medium. In middle age, poet/teacher Mairs (also a daughter, sister, parent, lover, mental patient, and victim of multiple sclerosis) writes out a life motivated by "the desire to contact others, to share my experiences with them, to stir them to recognition of the similarities that underlie their experiences and mine. . . ." She succeeds, providing a psychologically astute account of life in her particular "bone house" (i.e., body) that elicits not only interest and empathy but also the reader's own memories. Occasionally polemical in its feminism, this work ultimately rises above political explanations to reveal lived reality. For academic humanities collections as well as public libraries.
- Francisca Goldsmith, Berkeley P.L., Cal.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Now in her mid-40s, Mairs, an essayist and poet, recalls the past in lyrical descriptions of her home and loving kin in New England, as well as the house in Arizona where she settled later with her husband and children. But readers may not get far past the threshhold of understanding the "bone house," as the author regards her body. Mairs ( Plaintext ; In All the Rooms of the Yellow House ) is a person of accomplishments, coping with multiple sclerosis and recovering from suicide attempts and other ills to succeed as a college teacher as well as a writer. Yet her book loses much of its zest because of her incessant repetition, in eventually wearisome detail, of her sexual adventures with many men and her brief affair with a woman. Though Mairs believes these experiences were necessary to create erotic poetry--the linchpin of her life--the lurid effects drown her poet's voice and seem more exploitative than revelatory.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Colored by experience, mind and body together shape and are reshaped by one's personal memories; for women, many have argued, it is the dimension of space, rather than the masculine dimension of time, that is life's primary medium. In middle age, poet/teacher Mairs (also a daughter, sister, parent, lover, mental patient, and victim of multiple sclerosis) writes out a life motivated by "the desire to contact others, to share my experiences with them, to stir them to recognition of the similarities that underlie their experiences and mine. . . ." She succeeds, providing a psychologically astute account of life in her particular "bone house" (i.e., body) that elicits not only interest and empathy but also the reader's own memories. Occasionally polemical in its feminism, this work ultimately rises above political explanations to reveal lived reality. For academic humanities collections as well as public libraries.
- Francisca Goldsmith, Berkeley P.L., Cal.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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