Brazen Creature |
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| Author:
| Barngrover, Anne |
| Series title: | Akron Series in Poetry Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-62922-081-9 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2018 |
| Publisher: | University of Akron Press, The
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $9.99 |
Book Description:
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Brazen Creature spans a young woman's awakening. The poems' concerns are twofold: violence against women and girls that has become rooted in the land, and verdant female desire and self-assertion in the face of entrenched oppression. In the poems' Midwestern towns and farmlands, patriarchy is a ghost that haunts the cottonwoods, soybean fields, and creek beds. The speaker is in limbo between fear and yearning, vulnerability and transgression, drought and flood, saving a life and...
More DescriptionBrazen Creature spans a young woman's awakening. The poems' concerns are twofold: violence against women and girls that has become rooted in the land, and verdant female desire and self-assertion in the face of entrenched oppression. In the poems' Midwestern towns and farmlands, patriarchy is a ghost that haunts the cottonwoods, soybean fields, and creek beds. The speaker is in limbo between fear and yearning, vulnerability and transgression, drought and flood, saving a life and needing to be saved.