Virgin: Poems

Virgin: Poems

Selected by Ross Gay as winner of the inaugural Jake Adam York Prize, Analicia Soteloâ€™s debut collection of poems is a vivid portrait of the artist as a young woman.

In Virgin, Sotelo walks the line between autobiography and mythmaking, offering up identities like dishes at a feast. These poems devour and complicate tropes of femininityâ€•of naivetÃ©, of careless abandonâ€•before sharply exploring the intelligence and fortitude of women, how â€œfar & wide, / how dark & deep / this frigid female mind can go.â€ A schoolgirl hopelessly in love. A daughter abandoned by her father. A seeming innocent in a cherry-red cardigan, lurking at the margins of a Texas barbeque. A contemporary Ariadne with her monstrous Theseus. A writer with a penchant for metaphor and a character who thwarts her own best efforts. â€œA Mexican American fascinator.â€

At every step, Soteloâ€™s poems seduce with history, folklore, and sensory detailâ€•grilled meat, golden habaÃ±eros, and burnt sugarâ€•before delivering clear-eyed and eviscerating insights into power, deceit, relationships, and ourselves. Here is what it means to love someone without truly understanding them. Here is what it means to be cruel. And here is what it means to become an artist, of words and of the self.

Blistering and gorgeous, Virgin is an audacious act of imaginative self-mythology from one of our most promising young poets.
Country USA
Brand Milkweed Editions
Manufacturer Milkweed Editions
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber localization_1571315004
ReleaseDate 2018-02-20
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781571315007

Country	USA
Brand	Milkweed Editions
Manufacturer	Milkweed Editions
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	localization_1571315004
ReleaseDate	2018-02-20
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781571315007

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