Softness - A Meditation on Knitting: Jean Oberlander clothes saving suggestions and much more

saving suggestions and much more

Across 20 short

' These mechanics of the present whirl through the forms of the inventive and refreshing poems in this collection: they're complicated

Life started to take interesting turns after he moved in with Mary and her two children in the spring of 1969

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Softness - A Meditation on Knitting: Jean Oberlander clothes saving suggestions and much morePublished by Common Threads Press Unravelling the semantics of the ugly jumper, the ratty cardigan and the squishy mittens. Softness is a poetic reflection on hand knitting and the neglected objects that give us nourishment. A straggly jumper, shrunken in a hot wash. A frayed sleeve, mended with different wool. A garish sweater, coffee stained but decidedly unwashed, sent by a loved one to withstand the cold winters. Punctuated by short key texts from