Life of the Party: If A Girl Screams, and Other Poems Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Life of the Party: If A Girl Screams, and Other Poems Book

____________"I am stirred by the poems in this book - it is a sharp, unflinching collection of poems about girlhood, wonder, casual everyday violence."Yrsa Daley-Ward, author of 'bone' and 'The Terrible'In this multi-faceted collection of odes, anecdotes, sonnets and prose, Olivia Gatwood weaves together the trials and triumphs of growing up and explores the many ways that fear and violence can be internalized in a woman's psyche. At times blistering and riotous, at times soulful and exuberant, Life of the Party is about what it means to be a girl and a woman in today’s world and the challenge of briefly being both. In powerful, piercingly candid language, Gatwood asks: How does one grow from a girl to a woman in a world wracked by violence? What happens to our bodies that make us who we are? Is this fear really irrational?A dazzling collection of raw and explosive poems from a thrilling new feminist voice.Read More

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    Life of the Party : Paperback : Transworld Publishers Ltd : 9780857526250 : : 29 Aug 2019 : A dazzling introduction to a thrilling new voice in contemporary feminist poetry. In this multi-faceted collection of odes, anecdotes, sonnets and prose, Olivia Gatwood weaves together the trials and triumphs of growing up and explores the many ways that fear and violence can be internalized in the female body. Angry, powerful and piercingly candid, it is about what it means to be a girl and a woman in today's world and the challenge of briefly being both. How does one grow from a girl to a woman in a world wracked by violence? What is the meaning of bravery? What happens to our bodies that make us who we are?

  • 0857526251
  • 9780857526250
  • Gatwood, Olivia
  • 29 August 2019
  • Doubleday
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 176
  • 1
  • Book
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