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A Hog
Slaughtering Woman
"Reading A
Hog Slaughtering Woman is not unlike discovering a box of daguerreotypes
in the attic of an abandoned farmhouse or barn loft. Portraits: Katherine
Daley, Katie Teppe, Uncle Frank, Roy Nickol, Great Grandma Agnes who tossed
'her slop pot / out the upstairs window every morning.'. . . Preserved
here is a community of rural folk whose histories Marlatt so fully imagines
that each character steps magically from still-life back into this world
where past and present co-exist. |