MICE 1961 Olivia Douglass

Olivia Douglass

embodiment and sociality

succumbs in Rees's narrative extrusion to a torrential historicity: the poem moves at the relentless pace of a police scanner

” In this first English edition

” arising from her obsession with literary modernism and her recent transplantation to Akron

MICE 1961 Olivia DouglassFrom the press: Mice 1961 recounts a pivotal day in the fraught relationship of two orphaned sisters through the eyes of their obsessive lodger housekeeper. How will Jody cope if her younger sibling Mice, bullied and belittled in their community for her unusual appearance and habits, leaves home? How can their all watching companion bond herself irrevocably to the sisters? When an unsettling stranger arrives, all three women are driven toward