Girl-King (Akron Series in Poetry (Paperback))

Girl-King (Akron Series in Poetry (Paperback))

The poems in Brittany Cavallaroâ€™s Girl-King are whispered from behind a series of masks, those of victim and aggressor, nineteenth-century madame and reluctant magicianâ€™s girl, of truck-stop Persephone and frustrated Tudor scholar. This â€œexpanse of girls, expanding stillâ€ 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 pastâ€™s marginalia, at its â€œblank pagesâ€ as well as its â€œscrawls and dashes.â€ Always, they return to â€œthe dark, indelicate questionâ€ of power and sexuality, of who can rule the â€œcity where no one is from.â€ These girls search for the connection between â€œalive and will stay that way,â€ between each dying star and the emptiness that can collapse everything.
Country USA
Brand University of Akron Press
Manufacturer University of Akron Press
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781937378981
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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