Girl work / Zefyr Lisowski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lisowski, Zefyr, 1994- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexual abuse victims--Poetry.

Sexual abuse victims.

American poetry--Women authors--21st century.

American poetry.

American poetry--Women authors.

Genre:

prose poems.

Prose poems.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

88 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

[Blacksburg, Virginia] : Noemi Press, [2024]

Summary:

"GIRL WORK, a book-length meditation on sexual violence and feminized labor, centers hybrid-form and prose poems exploring haunting, labor, sexual trauma, and the assertion of a gender- nonconforming self in our current political moment. Written in injunctions to the self, to past assailants, and to friends, GIRL WORK challenges canonical representations of pain as punitive, redemptive, or separable from the environmental conditions it springs from. Throughout GIRL WORK, a self is restored from the detritus of memory--flashes of sexual violence, pop cultural touchstones like the movie The Ring, the music of Ke$ha, the sudden death of a father, the paintings of Henry Darger, and more."--Publisher website.

Contents:

After I become well, I throw myself into the well hole

Girl work

CRAZY4CRAZY or, Pharmacological solutions for personal problems

Poem with dead girl in it

Rape fantasy

To be a girl is always to be a dead girl

Poem only about beauty

Charybdis

Ghost story

Poem to be read in a workshop

Remembering is a kind of work too

On vampires

Are you there still? Oh. I do, I do, I do.

Girl work (pop song)

Against forgiveness

One function of the line is to order, another is to cut

Sexual history

Poem only about girl work

Notes

Acknowledgements.

Notes:

Winner of the 2022 Book Award in Poetry from Noemi Press.

Includes bibliographical references.

Lambda Literary Awards - Transgender Poetry, Winner, 2025

ISBN:

9781955992046

1955992045

OCLC:

1418868614

Publisher Number:

90100658176