Böcker av Marita Dachsel

Poetry. Finalist, Acorn-Plantos Award for People's Poetry. Recommended Read, 49th Shelf. Edmonton Journal's Favourite Book List selection. BC Books for BC Schools pick. GLOSSOLALIA is an unflinching exploration of sisterhood, motherhood, and sexuality as told in a series of poetic monologues spoken by the thirty-four polygamous wives of Joseph Smith, founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In Marita Dachsel's second full-length collection, the self-avowed agnostic feminist uses mid-nineteenth century Mormon America as a microcosm for the universal emotions of love, jealousy, loneliness, pride, despair, and passion. GLOSSOLALIA is an extraordinary, often funny, and deeply human examination of what it means to be a wife and a woman through the lens of religion and history. GLOSSOLALIA is a curious, wonderful book, in which a 'self- avowed agnostic feminist uses mid-nineteenth century Mormon America as a microcosm for... universal emotions'... Dachsel's wives are less a chorus than a cacophony, a crowd of dissonant voices, each shouting to be heard above the others... But hear them, we do. The wives each emerge as distinct, aware, embodied, and it is the smallness and closeness of poetry (as well as their poet's talent) that brings them so to life.--Pickle Me This Michael Ondaatje's Collected Works of Billy the Kid did it. Randall Maggs did it with NIGHT WORK: THE SAWCHUCK POEMS and now Marita Dachsel does it with GLOSSOLALIA. Dachsel so inhabits the characters and time of her story as to make it hyper real... Dachsel brings the same sort of vivid, intimate focus, you think you can hear the quiet breathing of these women... GLOSSOLALIA is simply riveting, it is hauntingly sad, it is a clear and articulate indictment of patriarchy and religion... If I had a rating system this book would get all my stars.--Michael Dennis' Poetry Blog ... a series of monologues from the thirty-four polygamous wives of Joseph Smith... Through poems whose form varies as much as the personalities of the women, we're let in on a myriad of secrets and insights into sisterhood, motherhood and sexuality in mid- nineteenth century Mormon America... Avoiding sentimentality Dachsel gives us a haunting collection that illuminates lives that were behind- the-scenes until now. This book is a jewel-like union of unique voices. Together they create a stunning stained glass piece soldered together into a choir of glass and light.--Canadian Poetries

"Personal essays from diverse voices about their relationships to the fibre arts. Sometimes, the reliability of a knit stitch, the steady rocking of a quilting needle, the solid structure of a loom, is all you have. During the pandemic, fibre arts newbies discovered and lapsed crafters rediscovered that picking up some sticks and string or a needle and thread was the perfect way to reduce stress, quell anxiety, and foster creativity, an antidote to endless hours of doom-scrolling. Chances are you or someone close to you is currently in an ecstatic relationship with yarn, thread, or fabric. As we struggle with the pressures, anxieties, and impacts of daily life, fibre arts - knitting, crocheting, embroidery, weaving, beading, sewing, quilting, textiles - can be an antidote, a mirror and a metaphor for so many of life's challenges. Part time machine, part meditation app, the simple act of working with one's hands instantly reduces the overwhelming scope of living to a human scale and the present moment. In this nonfiction anthology, writers and artists from different backgrounds explore their complex relationships to fibre arts and the intersection of creative practice and identity, technology, climate change, trauma, politics, chronic illness, and disability. In answer to the mainstream craft space's tendency to centre the perspectives and careers of white women, Sharp Notions showcases Black, Indigenous, South Asian, Chinese, and queer artists and makers and the cultural traditions of craft in diasporic communities. Accompanied by full-colour photographs throughout, these powerful essays challenge the traditional view of crafting and examine the role, purpose, joy, and necessity of craft amid the alienation of contemporary life."--

Delicate, authentic poems that oscillate between grief and joy as they explore parenthood and loss.