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"Too Many Emotions and No Tranquility" — Jessica E. Johnson Tells the Story of Mettlework
Season 3
Episode 40
Published 1 year, 5 months ago
Description
In this episode, Jessica E. Johnson tells the story of Mettlework. Along the way she covers:
Agent troubles
Her poetry collection Metabolics
A need for more poetry about motherhood
Connections between form, content, and 'material conditions of creation' in her work
Gathering your mentor texts
The inheritance of motherhood and the self-sacrificing mother myth
Mary Ardery's review of her book
Emma Copley Eisenberg and Housemates