| If the Girl Never Learns: Poems Contributor(s): Silverman, Sue William (Author) |
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ISBN: 1941799647 ISBN-13: 9781941799642 Publisher: Brick Mantel Books OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Women Authors - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2018954332 |
| Physical Information: 0.19" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.25 lbs) 80 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Death/Dying |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: You are The Girl, and The Girl is a Badass. From the opening lines, it's clear The Girl at the center of these poems is damaged--which is another way to say she's a survivor. If the Girl Never Learns moves from the personal to the mythic to the apocalyptic, because The Girl would do anything, even go to hell, to save her soul. So, she resists, takes action to overturn society's suffocating ideal of Good Girldom. The poems' sense of breathlessness reflects The Girl's absolute need to control her own destiny, to outrun her past, while at the same time chasing a future she alone has envisioned and embodied. Because The Girl is, above all else, a badass. |
Contributor Bio(s): Silverman, Sue William: - Sue William Silverman's first poetry collection is Hieroglyphics in Neon. She is also the author of four books of creative nonfiction. Her most recent book, The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew, was a finalist in Foreword Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award. Her memoir, Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You, won the AWP Award, and Love Sick: One Woman's Journey through Sexual Addiction is also a Lifetime TV original movie. Her craft book is Fearless Confessions: A Writer's Guide to Memoir, and she teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. |