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Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Givhan is a Mexican-American poet from the Southwestern desert. She is the author of Landscape with Headless Mama (2015 Pleiades Editors' Prize) and Protection Spell (2016 Miller Williams Poetry Prize Series). Her honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, a PEN/Rosenthal Emerging Voices Fellowship, and The Frost Place Latin@ Scholarship, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in many publications including Ploughshares, POETRY, Boston Review, Blackbird , and The Kenyon Review . She is Editor-in-Chief at Tinderbox Poetry Journal , and she lives with her family in New Mexico. Klappentext Love, tequila, sex, first periods, late nights, abuse, and heartache. The journey from girl to womanhood is brimming with transformative magic that heals even as it shatters. These are the memories that haunt the dreams of what was and what could have been in Girl with Death Mask. In four rich and imaginative movements of poems, Jennifer Givhan profiles the suffering and the love of a Latina girl and then mother coming to terms with sexual trauma. Her daughter is a touchstone of healing as she seeks to unravel her own emotions and protect the next generation of women with a fierceness she must find within. Givhan exploits changing poetic forms to expose what it means to mature in a female body swirling with tenderness, violence, and potential in an uncertain world. Girl with Death Mask is a cathartic and gripping confession of the trials of adolescence and womanhood. Inhaltsverzeichnis Lifeline I The Dying Girl & The Date Palm The Change Plan B Billiards Quinceañera Daughter Page Ripped from The Symbol Sourcebook Miracle of the River Pig Ignorance 3-Card Spread What Is True What Isn't True Advice Daughter Lace Your Fingers to the Sky 1.0 out of 5 stars Not For Teennage [sic] Girls* Hallucination With Danny What's Been Given Me Secondhand Faithful Woman Common Carp II Girl with Death Mask Sin Vergüenza (Como los Pájaros) Warn the Young Ones First Response Sea Level Avra Failure The Mother of ______ Pulse The Rhinoceros Calf On Contemplating Leaving My Children Mexican Wedding Cookies Chassis The Girl (Whose Mother Filled Her Belly with Meth & Let Terrible People Mutilate Her Body Before Killing Her) Runs Away III La Llorona Comes Over for Dinner IV When I Am Not Joan of Arc or You Bring Me a Bowl of Green & Purple Olives Refugio State Candling The Eggs Bird Bath (Baño de Pájaros) Ritual Shame Furiosa Three Wolf Spirits In the Waiting Room of the Child Psychologist Reabsorption Elegy Ghost Girl in the Recovery Room Myth Retrograde At the Altar of Staying This Bridge Called My Back ...
