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Broken: A Life of Aileen Wuornos in 33 Poems
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ISBN13: 9798367815405
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 31 2021
Pages: 68
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.14 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 31 2021
Pages: 68
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.14 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Natasha Dennerstein's gestures in this collection are stripped so far back they are practically bleached. The subject is difficult, forget square pegs and round holes, the geometry of Aileen Wuornos was n-dimentional. We hear that female serial killers are a rare thing. I frequently wonder if that might not be too short a sentence, if they might not mean it's rare for female serial killers to be caught. Take this book, this story, in your hands. Take in the bleak snapshots in words. Take Dennerstein's songs of pain and repeated impact: bullet, flesh, insult, sex. See if you can also take some comfort in this being the poet's version, white female aged 34 at the end of her tether. How are your revenge fantasies? Dennerstein is a poetic master, this collection is a masterwork.
- K Shuck
- Linda Ravenswood BFA, MA, PhD
Founder and EIC, The Los Angeles Press Through diverse poetic structures and enlisting her lyrical strengths alongside diction that's realistic for a woman branded a monster, Natasha Dennerstein humanizes Aileen Wuornos, a man-hating killer that America failed to truly see. Through poems mostly in the voice of Wuornos, readers submerge within a woman that we otherwise write off as criminal. Angry. Crazy. Broken is a courageous yet sound emotional and psychological autopsy of abuse's consequences, as we wander Wuornos' life from birth until the ashes of assault's girlchild who hitchhiked her life away, transforming wounds into survival, into murder. Almost immediately in this collection, readers find themselves facing a whole other murderer in this killer's story, a sadistic sequence of atrocious men as the true perpetrator. This collection is a bravely uncomfortable but necessary excursion into the soul of the suffering, when sexual assault enlists women to embody the patriarchy's dirty work.
- K.R. Morrison
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