| Author: | Anne Barngrover | ISBN: | 9781629220826 |
| Publisher: | University of Akron Press | Publication: | April 23, 2018 |
| Imprint: | The University Of Akron Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Anne Barngrover |
| ISBN: | 9781629220826 |
| Publisher: | University of Akron Press |
| Publication: | April 23, 2018 |
| Imprint: | The University Of Akron Press |
| Language: | English |
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 needing to be saved.
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 needing to be saved.
