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What Girls Learn

What Girls Learn

Stuart, Anne Dyer

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $14.99

ISBN10: 1646627156
ISBN13: 9781646627158
Publisher: Finishing Line Pr
Published: Dec 3 2021
Pages: 40
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.10 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Circling what is and is not home, the girls and women in Anne Dyer Stuart's chapbook of poems, What Girls Learn, lead lives of damage, struggle, and self-formation. There is a girl at the window of the burned house, says one poem. Girls' ruin lies in others' hands says another. This poet is not inclined to let it lie. She narrates a life in the body, with its bright optimism and its slow decay; she tells stories of pleasures and terrors, the indelicate paradox of wanting to be wanted, to disappear, to blaze up/like a prom dress thrown on a campfire. Even the old metaphors sound new in Stuart's hands: a sixteen year old girl asked a trick question is mute as cheese. Summer is described as a slow dream turning/away, rotting on the sills . . . but you will take her anyway/all the bruises mush inside your mouth/all the sweet juice sticky on your chin. What Girls Learn is an accurate, painstaking, and tender exploration of girlhood and growing up into a woman who still holds the unspoiled girl she was: Inside: sleek, unblemished./Inside: the same you God/ stitched together-hastily, in Heaven, / then threw down like a stone.

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