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Girl's Guide to Leaving: Wisconsin Poetry Series

Autor Laura Villareal
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 apr 2022
Tumbleweeds and wandering cacti litter the page, coyotes croon at the prose. In poems haunted by specters of intimate partner violence, Girl’s Guide to Leaving considers what it means to escape the love that trapped you and find a temporary home in the barely cooled ashes of a wildfire.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780299336844
ISBN-10: 0299336840
Pagini: 80
Ilustrații: 0 illus.
Dimensiuni: 178 x 229 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
Seria Wisconsin Poetry Series


Recenzii

“A folklore troubadour, Villareal ably unfolds a path through memory. Running wild and running home, this guide isn’t just for leaving but rather for making space in sites where one can ‘witness local miracles’ or to tell a heroine’s story without remorse. This is a rangy and ambitious book.”—Carmen Giménez Smith
“Formally diverse, this collection wants to “tell you all hearts find good homes eventually” while moving through contrapuntals, prose blocks, and open field poems that articulate anything but statis, that articulate that perhaps the place we will find the most comfort for our hearts is in the act of forward motion, in the act of leaving.”—Chet’la Sebree
"Laura Villareal’s full-length debut rests upon the slow healing of myth-making, the retrospective balming of injury to lore. Grief is guarded in secret like a torn photograph in your shirt pocket. Leaving—a ritual ripe with a yearning to outrun the predatory stride of memory. Every escape charts new cartographies—away from homes that shelve your “whole self away / in the garage or attic,” smell of “Diesel cologne, brass & birdshot,” and towards a body habitable by your tenderest of parts. Girl’s Guide To Leaving moves through the curative wisdom of transit, unrestrained in its desire to flee and toss a lit match behind it."--Ana Portnoy Brimmer, author of To Love An Island
“Laura Villareal’s future shines bright if her debut full-length collection, Girl’s Guide to Leaving (University of Wisconsin Press), is anything to judge her by. Villareal’s poems are full of longing and letting go of one’s loves and expectations around relationships, family, and culture. She wraps the rich tapestry of her inherited Mexican folklore around each poem, reinventing the speaker, the story, and the land in the process.”—Washington Independent Review of Books

Notă biografică

Laura Villareal is a 2019–21 National Book Critics Circle Emerging Fellow, a 2020–21 Stadler Fellow, and the author of the chapbook The Cartography of Sleep. She works on an interview series at F(r)iction called “Writers Talking about Anything but Writing.” Her work has appeared in AGNI, Grist, Black Warrior Review, Waxwing, and elsewhere.

Cuprins

Contents

Girl’s Guide to Leaving
Trapping Season
The Conditions for Existing as Proposed by X, Y, & Z (What Makes Sense, What’s Safe, What’s Productive)
Before Skipping Town
Sardine Spine
The Long Trajectory of Grief
Afterwards
I Still Check for Monsters Before I Go to Bed
Baby Teeth
Outgrowing a Home
Desert Note
The Astronomer’s Daughter
Crush
Home Is Where the Closet Is
Inside the Foxhole
Inside All the Places I Can’t See
Down By the Water
Slash-and-Burn
If I Invited You to Love Me
Mother // Monster
Thanksgivings
Heart Attack
Curas & Dichos
My Worries Have Worries
Uncertainty with Fish Scales
Solar Eclipse // Myself In Orbit
(My)thology
A Bedtime Story About the Heart
Ending in Contrition or Resignation
When Joy Split Open
Seeds
Boiling Puffins
8 Chickens in a Papier-Mâché Human: A Bedtime Story
Before You Visited

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