Mother Goose Refigured presents annotated translations of Charles Perrault s 1697 fairy tales that attend to the irony and ambiguity in the original French and provide a fresh take on heroines and heroes that have become household names in North America.
In a town in an unnamed Latin American country, a Catholic priest—racked by moral doubt regarding the Church’s social role—discovers the torn papers of a diary belonging to a woman arrested and brutally tortured for no apparent reason.
Suburban and cosmopolitan, youthful and elderly, formal and experimentalO these binaries twist like threads which meet in this anthology, and interweave on the loom of prosody, forming rich and varied textures, Few can craft poems with the skill of these two artisans from Zimbabwe.
There's something for every parent and child to enjoy in this delightfully fresh picture book that takes playful aim at the art of parenting-and all the hopeful, nail-biting expectations that go with it.
