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Girl-King
Girl-King | Brittany Cavallaro
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"The poems in Brittany Cavallaro's Girl-King are whispered from behind a series of masks, those of victim and aggressor, nineteenth-century madame and reluctant magician's girl, of truck-stop Persephone and frustrated Tudor scholar. This "expanse of girls, expanding still" chase each other through history, disappearing in an Illinois cornfield only to re-emerge on the dissection table of a Scottish artist-anatomist. But these poems are not just interested in historical narrative: they peer, too, at the past's marginalia, at its "blank pages" as well as its "scrawls and dashes." Always, they return to "the dark, indelicate question" of power and sexuality, of who can rule the "city where no one is from." These girls search for the connection between "alive and will stay that way," between each dying star and the emptiness that can collapse everything"--
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balletbookworm
Girl-King | Brittany Cavallaro
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An exquisitely wrought group of poems, each very precisely tuned. I stumbled a little in several sections with references/metaphor - The Ressurectionists section is the most accessible - but was definitely rewarded by the “work” of reading. (I‘d advise revisiting Berryman‘s Dream Songs when reading the Mirror Songs section)

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Kalalalatja
Girl-King | Brittany Cavallaro
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This poetry collection sounded as something I would love. But that didn't happen unfortunately. I didn't get most of the poems. They were beautifully written, but the style just weren't for me. Maybe a reread at some point will improve my impression.

#24in48 #LitsyAtoZ #LetterC

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Kalalalatja
Girl-King | Brittany Cavallaro
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I have been gone for a few hours to watch the opening of Aarhus2017 (Aarhus, the Danish City where I live, is the European Culture Capital of 2017). But now I am reading to continue reading, and hopefully I will reach the halfway point before I go to sleep later 🤞

#24in48 #readathon

LeahBergen 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 7y
BibliophileMomma 👍🏼👍🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 7y
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Kalalalatja
Girl-King | Brittany Cavallaro
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I am up again and ready to continue the #24in48 readathon. I begin my morning with breakfast, poetry and dragons 👍

#readathon #LitsyAtoZ #LetterC #LetterW

LeahBergen Perfect! 👍🏼 7y
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Kalalalatja
Girl-King | Brittany Cavallaro
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Late night #bookmail. These are the books I got for the gift certificate I got for Christmas. All six are part of my #LitsyAtoZ tbr, and some of them will also work for challenges in both the #LitsyReadingChallenge and #ReadHarder. Yay!

Lacythebookworm The Encyclopedia of Early Earth is wonderful! 😍 7y
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