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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Allegheny Women

Allegheny Women

McMonagle, Lisa

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1639805281
ISBN13: 9781639805280
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Apr 5 2024
Pages: 46
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.11 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
These rich narrative poems are brimming with stories of a girl on the precipice of puberty, who is learning to live with being female. She is being raised by a strong single mother in Appalachia-that land of crisscrossed valleys, where ridges chaperoned girls on their straight, narrow paths and where life is as rigid as the rules a woman must live by in 1965 rural Pennsylvania. Lisa McMonagle's poetry makes you wish you could meet her mother-a woman best described by the hardwood locust trees of Appalachia who burned as hot as locust wood when defending those she loved. But more than the characters, it is the language that makes this book a must read. Imagine describing a Playboy magazine examined by two teenage girls as Between us we held the magazine like two sopranos sharing a hymnal, or her grandmother's mealtime words of grace as happiness diluted always with a little sorrow―a Baptist Yin-Yang. Or the way the poetry describes the young woman preparing for life beyond Appalachia-

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