Girl with Death Mask

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

Love, tequila, sex, first periods, late nights, abuse, and heartache. The journey from girl to womanhood is brimming with transformative magic that heals even as it shatters. These are the memories that haunt the dreams of what was and what could have been in Girl with Death Mask.In four rich and imaginative movements of poems, Jennifer Givhan profiles the suffering and the love of a Latina girl and then mother coming to terms with sexual trauma. Her daughter is a touchstone of healing as she seeks to unravel her own emotions as well as protect the next generation of budding women with a fierceness she must find within. Givhan exploits changing poetic forms to expose what it means to mature in a female body swirling with tenderness, violence, and potential in an uncertain world. Girl with Death Mask is a cathartic and gripping confession of the trials of adolescence and womanhood.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-03-17
Mått:140 x 216 x 5 mm
Vikt:113 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Indiana University Press (IPS)
Antal sidor:94
Förlag:Indiana University Press
ISBN:9780253032799

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Jennifer Givhan is a Mexican-American poet from the Southwestern desert. She is the author of Landscape with Headless Mama (2015 Pleiades Editors' Prize) and Protection Spell (2016 Miller Williams Poetry Prize Series). Her honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, a PEN/Rosenthal Emerging Voices Fellowship, and The Frost Place Latin@ Scholarship, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in many publications including Ploughshares, POETRY, Boston Review, Blackbird, and The Kenyon Review. She is Editor-in-Chief at Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and she lives with her family in New Mexico.

Recensioner i media

Givhan crafts a clear-eyed narrative of Latina womanhood in this lovely collection ripe with longing, hope, and broken faith. . . . Givhan explores the dark sides of adolescence and womanhood with searing imagery and a healthy dose of empathy.(Publishers Weekly) Jennifer Givhan, we're awed by your use of pause and pacing, as you lead us to better understanding a woman's landmine-filled journey out of childhood.(ForeWord Reviews) "Girl With Death Mask is so inspiring, it may just be that rare bird, a poetry bestseller."(Cultural Weekly)

Innehållsförteckning

LifelineI The Dying Girl & The Date PalmThe ChangePlan B BilliardsQuinceañeraDaughter Page Ripped from The Symbol SourcebookMiracle of the River PigIgnorance3-Card Spread What Is True What Isn't True AdviceDaughter Lace Your Fingers to the Sky1.0 out of 5 stars Not For Teennage [sic] Girls*Hallucination With DannyWhat's Been Given Me SecondhandFaithful WomanCommon CarpII Girl with Death MaskSin Vergüenza (Como los Pájaros)Warn the Young OnesFirst ResponseSea LevelAvraFailure The Mother of ______PulseThe Rhinoceros CalfOn Contemplating Leaving My ChildrenMexican Wedding CookiesChassisThe Girl (Whose Mother Filled Her Belly with Meth & Let Terrible People Mutilate Her Body Before Killing Her) Runs Away III La Llorona Comes Over for Dinner IV When I Am Not Joan of Arc or You Bring Me a Bowl of Green & Purple OlivesRefugio StateCandling The EggsBird Bath (Baño de Pájaros)RitualShameFuriosaThree Wolf SpiritsIn the Waiting Room of the Child PsychologistReabsorption Elegy Ghost Girl in the Recovery RoomMythRetrogradeAt the Altar of StayingThis Bridge Called My Back