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Girl king, Brittany Cavallaro

Label
Girl king, Brittany Cavallaro
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Girl king
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Responsibility statement
Brittany Cavallaro
Series statement
Akron series in poetry
Summary
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
Target audience
adult
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