Girl-king
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Author
Publication
2015 - University Of Akron Press, Akron, Ohio, Ohio
Language
English
Word Count
19,000 words, Guess
Page Count
76 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139781937378981
- ISBN-139781937378974
- ISBN-139781937378998
- ISBN-139781629220000
- ISBN-101937378985
and 7 more
- ISBN-101937378977
- ISBN-101937378993
- ISBN-101629220000
- Library of Congress Control Number2014044270
- OCLC Control Number868642499
- Better World BooksO9-AKZ-542
- Open LibraryOL31057567M
Classifications
- DDC811/.6
- LCCPS3603.A89895 A6 2015
Description
"The poems in Brittany Cavallaro's Girl-King are whispered from behind a series of masks, those of victim and aggressor, nineteenth-century madame and reluctant magician's girl, of truck-stop Persephone and frustrated Tudor scholar. This "expanse of girls, expanding still" chase each other through history, disappearing in an Illinois cornfield only to re-emerge on the dissection table of a Scottish artist-anatomist. But these poems are not just interested in historical narrative: they peer, too, at the past's marginalia, at its "blank pages" as well as its "scrawls and dashes." Always, they return to "the dark, indelicate question" of power and sexuality, of who can rule the "city where no one is from." These girls search for the connection between "alive and will stay that way," between each dying star and the emptiness that can collapse everything"--
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Series Statement
- Akron series in poetry
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