Girlwood by Jennifer Still
By Jennifer Still
Winner of the 2012 John Hirsch Award for many Promising Manitoba Writer
A linguistically artistic exaltation, a wild experience down into the privacies, the here-and-goneness of girlhood.
In Girlwood, Jennifer Still's moment assortment, her poems come of age: they take the dare; they go out of sapling and into maturity's thicket. however the poems don’t depart the woman in the back of, they create her alongside: as sylph, as raconteur, as witness, as natural, unstoppable bravado. those songs of liberation and confinement come up from the wealthy and mysterious connection among mom and daughter. right here, the mummy determine is as weak because the daughter, caged by way of household accountability, through the terror that snakes via sexuality, the longing and the repulsion that accompany mortal wish. The daughter is right now compassionate and defiant. this is often the ambiguity on the middle of this assortment. "Mother, divine me," Jennifer nonetheless writes, and later, "Mother, spare me." among those words, that are either plea and command, we adventure the entire tangled pathways among mom and daughter, the cries of devotion and the congested laments.
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