Kathleen Ernst
Balancing: Poems of the Female Immigrant Experience - Paperback Book
Balancing: Poems of the Female Immigrant Experience - Paperback Book
The poems in Balancing: Poems of the Female Immigrant Experience in the Upper Midwest, 1830-1930 were inspired by the experiences of women who, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, sought new homes in the upper Midwest. the first waves of pioneers, predominantly Yankees from Northeastern states, were soon followed by European immigrants. Few women recorded their struggles and satisfactions, but by juxtaposing research and imagination, Kathleen Ernst breathes new life into their forgotten stories.
Reading Kathleen Ernst's collection of poems, you'll feel immediately and exquisitely immersed in the hopes and joys, the travails and disappointments of the 19th-century immigrant woman. With a painterly eye, Kathleen writes with empathy, compassion, and a profound understanding of their lives; these women who were forced to balance "from stump to stump, from Old World to New/from dreaming bride to resolute wife/one foot rooted solid, the other suspended in air."
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Paperback
68 pages
Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.16 x 8.5 inches