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    612-822-4611

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The Haunted House

The Haunted House

Crawford, Marisa

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General Poetry

Publisher Price: $14.00

ISBN10: 0978617258
ISBN13: 9780978617257
Publisher: Switchback Books
Published: Apr 1 2010
Pages: 82
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Marisa Crawford's first collection of poetry evokes The Breakfast Club's angst with deliberate control and fresh upheaval. Centering on coming-of-age themes, Crawford is brutally honest yet careful in her representations and confessional moments-she invokes a preteen voice, capturing in detail female subjects, such as one who wears cotton flowers on her undershirt, and describing men who leave handprints all over your blankets. There is a maddening and desirous investment in the characters littered throughout: Ivy, Deidre, Virginia, Stephanie, Megan. Each girl is a catalyst for another brilliantly crafted poem; each poem is a catalyst for swizzle-stick nostalgia and a close re-examination of girlhood. The winner of the 2008 Gatewood Prize, Crawford reminds us that although we may make it out of our childhoods alive, we never quite shake our own personal geographies.

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