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Hemisphere


A collection of Poetry


Subgenres:

  • Motherhood,
  • Family Legacy,
  • Feminist
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  • Poetry that reclaims and celebrates the female body
  • Intimate explorations of motherhood and family legacy
  • Visceral reflections on scars, birth, and generational inheritance
Publisher Description

Winner, 2015 Seven Sisters Book Award for Poetry. The poems in Hemisphere explore what it means to be a daughter and what it means to bear new life. Ellen Hagan investigates the world historical hemispheres of a family legacy from around the globe and moves down to the most intimate hemisphere of impending motherhood.

Her poems reclaim the female body from the violence, both literal and literary, done to it over the years. Hagan acknowledges the changing body of a mother from the strains of birth—from the growing body of a child, to the scars left most visibly by a C-section—as well as the changes wrought by age and, too often, abuse.

The existence of a hemisphere implies a part seeking a whole, and as a collection, Hemisphere is a coherent and cogent journey toward reclamation and wholeness.

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