| Girl-King Contributor(s): Cavallaro, Brittany (Author) |
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ISBN: 1937378985 ISBN-13: 9781937378981 Publisher: University of Akron Press
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: March 2015 |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2014044270 |
| Physical Information: 0.27" H x 6.04" W x 9.03" L (0.33 lbs) 64 pages |
| Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The poems in Brittany Cavallaro's Girl-King are whispered from behind a series of masks, those of victim and aggressor, nineteenth-century madame and reluctant magician's girl, of truck-stop Persephone and frustrated Tudor scholar. This "expanse of girls, expanding still" 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 past's marginalia, at its "blank pages" as well as its "scrawls and dashes." Always, they return to "the dark, indelicate question" of power and sexuality, of who can rule the "city where no one is from." These girls search for the connection between "alive and will stay that way," between each dying star and the emptiness that can collapse everything. |
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