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Reader, I / Corey Van Landingham.
Van Pelt Library PS3622.A585494 R43 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Van Landingham, Corey, 1986- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marriage--Poetry.
- Marriage.
- Married women--Poetry.
- Married women.
- Man-woman relationships--Poetry.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Intimacy (Psychology)--Poetry.
- Intimacy (Psychology).
- Self--Poetry.
- Self.
- Genre:
- Domestic poetry
- Poetry
- Domestic poetry.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 86 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Louisville, KY : Sarabande Books, [2024]
- Summary:
- "Reader, I draws its title from the conclusion to Charlotte Bront͡'s Jane Eyre: "Reader, I married him." Spanning the first years of a marriage, the speaker in Reader, I both courts and eschews nuptial myths, as its speaker--tender and callous, skeptical and hopeful, daughter and lover--finds a role for herself in marriage, in history, in something beyond the self. While these poems burn with a Plathian fire, they also address and invite in a reader who is, as in Jane Eyre, a confidant. Steeped in a world of husbands and fathers, patriarchal nations and power structures, Reader, I traverses bowling alleys and hospital rooms, ancient Troy and public swimming pools, to envision domestic life as a metaphor for civic life, and vice versa."-- Publisher.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781956046250
- 1956046259
- OCLC:
- 1401258908
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