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Ribcage of Time - by Jacqueline Tchakalian (Paperback)

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  • Ribcage of Time, a poetry collection from a woman's point of view, is both intimate and universal in its scope of events--family life, birth, death, rape, abortion, genocide from a poet on the ledge of some eighty years of life with language fresh and unsettling.
  • Author(s): Jacqueline Tchakalian
  • 128 Pages
  • Poetry, Women Authors

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"The poems in Jacqueline Tchakalian's second poetry collection, Ribcage of Time, refer to Armenian genocide, public murder, rape, home abortions, including one outside the home with tragic repercussions for the writer. These poems have an ever-present wish for improvement, a more sane and equitable society for all. They reference family, the joy of having and being around children, the predicted loss of an ill husband, a plan for a different type of god. They are reflective poems that question the future, make strong assertions, and overall are imbued with hope for the future"--



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Ribcage of Time, a poetry collection from a woman's point of view, is both intimate and universal in its scope of events--family life, birth, death, rape, abortion, genocide from a poet on the ledge of some eighty years of life with language fresh and unsettling.

The poems in Jacqueline Tchakalian's second poetry collection, Ribcage of Time, refer to Armenian genocide, public murder, rape, home abortions, including one outside the home with tragic repercussions for the writer. These poems have an ever-present wish for improvement, a more sane and equitable society for all. They reference family, the joy of having and being around children, the predicted loss of an ill husband, a plan for a different type of god. They are reflective poems that question the future, make strong assertions, and overall are imbued with hope for the future.



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"Jacqueline Derner Tchakalian's collection Ribcage of Time pulses with desire-for the body's fleeting and insistent pleasures, for the beauty that drips honey from the world's comb, for more of life itself despite the sting of its difficulties and departures. Wide-ranging and visceral, these poems are thrillingly frank as they chronicle rape, home-done abortions and their catastrophic aftermath, the joys of long-cherished love and lust, death's strange and haunting impact, and history's varied oppressions. Ribcage of Time is an inventive, painterly book with its masterful blend of light and shadow and its vivid, precise images that burn themselves on a reader's brain." --Francesca Bell, author of Whoever Drowned Here


Questions of survival and resilience undergird poems exploring reproductive justice and political and sexual violence. "Should we bring a / mirror, hat, canoe? / Just the skin on / our backs?" asks the speaker of "Interrogation Trail." Family life--with its loves and losses--explores "how we own," even as we strive to reclaim "fertile terraces" and "a center that holds." These bold poems inspire bravery and celebrate hope." --Robin Becker, author of The Black Bear Inside Me


"Read "Abortion Blues" and weep--read "Naming My God"--"a god of / coincidence speaking the language / of bees . . ." Read every poem carefully and then start over--these are lived poems--as essential as they are hard earned. Ribcage of Time is a masterful accomplishment." --Gary Lemons, author of Original Grace


Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .31 Inches (D)
Weight: .45 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 128
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: Women Authors
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Jacqueline Tchakalian
Language: English
Street Date: October 1, 2024
TCIN: 94574675
UPC: 9781636281469
Item Number (DPCI): 247-38-0327
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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