Hemisphere

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Hemisphere is written by Ellen Hagan and published by Northwestern University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0810130807 (ISBN 10) and 9780810130807 (ISBN 13).

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.