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Girl with death mask / Jennifer Givhan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Givhan, Jennifer, author.
- Series:
- Blue light books.
- Blue Light Books
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF (ix, 79 pages).)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- Love, tequila, sex, first periods, late nights, abuse, and heartache. The journey from girl to womanhood is brimming with transformative magic that heals even as it shatters. These are the memories that haunt the dreams of what was and what could have been in Girl with Death Mask. In four rich and imaginative movements of poems, Jennifer Givhan profiles the suffering and the love of a Latina girl and then mother coming to terms with sexual trauma. Her daughter is a touchstone of healing as she seeks to unravel her own emotions and protect the next generation of women with a fierceness she must find within. Givhan exploits changing poetic forms to expose what it means to mature in a female body swirling with tenderness, violence, and potential in an uncertain world. Girl with Death Mask is a cathartic and gripping confession of the trials of adolescence and womanhood.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Lifeline
- I
- The Dying Girl &
- the Date Palm
- The Change
- Plan B
- Billiards
- Quinceañera
- Daughter Page Ripped from The Symbol Sourcebook
- Miracle of the River Pig
- Ignorance
- 3-Card Spread What Is True What Isn't True Advice
- Daughter Lace Your Fingers to the Sky
- 1.0 out of 5 stars Not For Teennage [sic] Girls*
- Hallucination with Danny
- What's Been Given Me Secondhand
- Faithful Woman
- Common Carp
- II
- Girl with Death Mask
- Sin Vergüenza (Como los Pájaros)
- Warn the Young Ones
- First Response
- Sea Level
- Avra
- Failure The Mother of __________
- Pulse
- The Rhinoceros Calf
- On Contemplating Leaving My Children
- Mexican Wedding Cookies
- Chassis
- The Girl (Whose Mother Filled Her Belly with Meth &
- Let Terrible People Mutilate Her Body Before Killing Her) Runs Away
- III
- La Llorona Comes Over for Dinner
- IV
- When I Am Not Joan of Arc or You Bring Me a Bowl of Green &
- Purple Olives
- Refugio State
- Candling the Eggs
- Bird Bath (Baño de Pájaros)
- Ritual
- Shame
- Furiosa
- Three Wolf Spirits
- In the Waiting Room of the Child Psychologist
- Reabsorption Elegy
- Ghost Girl in the Recovery Room
- Myth
- Retrograde
- At the Altar of Staying
- This Bridge Called My Back
- CREDITS.
- Notes:
- Poems.
- Blue Light Books Prize, 2017
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780253032812
- 0253032814
- 9780253032805
- 0253032806
- OCLC:
- 1028049429
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