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The Bone Spindle
| Author: | Anne Sheldon |
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Aqueduct Press, 2011 |
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| Book Type: | Collection |
| Genre: | Fantasy |
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Synopsis
Anne Sheldon's heroines have lowered eyes and seditious smiles. They are people of folklore and fairy tales: Penelope, the Crane Maiden, the Fates. Her heroes are outsiders in their own stories--Rumplestiltskin and Arachne's father.
These fourteen story-poems and stories focus on the work that women do with spinning wheel, spindle, and knitting needles. They are accompanied by evocative images of these instruments and the cloth they yield
In addition to reworking well-known fairy tales, she has several shining tales of her own making. Under the fluid sign of danger and domesticity--Anne Sheldon explores earthly and ethereal regions of the feminine.
Table of Contents:
- The Knitters of Paris
- The Fates at Work
- The Thirteenth Fairy
- Spider Yarn
- The Story of Arachne
- A Passing Good Woman
- The Horned Women of Slievenamon
- Rumpelstiltskin Laments
- The Girl with Twelve Brothers
- An Apocryphal Legend
- Dream from My Mother's House
- Household Needles
- The Crane Maiden
- Penelope at Night
- Bachelorae Antiquae
- Grandmother's Flower Garden
- The Art of Fiber
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