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Girl-King

Girl-King

Cavallaro, Brittany

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ISBN10: 1937378985
ISBN13: 9781937378981
Publisher: Univ Of Akron Pr
Published: Mar 1 2015
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.27 Width: 6.04 Depth: 9.03
Language: English
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.

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