Girl with Death Mask by Jennifer Givhan (English) Paperback Book

Description: Girl with Death Mask by Jennifer Givhan Love, tequila, sex, first periods, late nights, abuse, and heartache. The journey of a Latina girl to womanhood and then motherhood is brimming with transformative magic that heals even as it shatters. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 as well as protect the next generation of budding 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. Author Biography 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. Table of Contents LifelineI The Dying Girl & The Date PalmThe ChangePlan B BilliardsQuinceañeraDaughter Page Ripped from The Symbol SourcebookMiracle of the River PigIgnorance3-Card Spread What Is True What Isnt True AdviceDaughter Lace Your Fingers to the Sky1.0 out of 5 stars Not For Teennage [sic] Girls*Hallucination With DannyWhats Been Given Me SecondhandFaithful WomanCommon CarpII Girl with Death MaskSin VergÜenza (Como los Pájaros)Warn the Young OnesFirst ResponseSea LevelAvraFailure The Mother of ______PulseThe Rhinoceros CalfOn Contemplating Leaving My ChildrenMexican Wedding CookiesChassisThe 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 DinnerIV When I Am Not Joan of Arc or You Bring Me a Bowl of Green & Purple OlivesRefugio StateCandling The EggsBird Bath (Baño de Pájaros)RitualShameFuriosaThree Wolf SpiritsIn the Waiting Room of the Child PsychologistReabsorption Elegy Ghost Girl in the Recovery RoomMythRetrogradeAt the Altar of StayingThis Bridge Called My Back Review Givhan crafts a clear-eyed narrative of Latina womanhood in this lovely collection ripe with longing, hope, and broken faith. . . . Givhan explores the dark sides of adolescence and womanhood with searing imagery and a healthy dose of empathy. * Publishers Weekly *Jennifer Givhan, were awed by your use of pause and pacing, as you lead us to better understanding a womans landmine-filled journey out of childhood. * ForeWord Reviews *"Girl With Death Mask is so inspiring, it may just be that rare bird, a poetry bestseller." * Cultural Weekly * Review Quote "Givhan crafts a clear-eyed narrative of Latina womanhood in this lovely collection ripe with longing, hope, and broken faith. . . . Givhan explores the dark sides of adolescence and womanhood with searing imagery and a healthy dose of empathy."-- Publishers Weekly "Jennifer Givhan, were awed by your use of pause and pacing, as you lead us to better understanding a womans landmine-filled journey out of childhood."-- ForeWord Reviews " Girl With Death Mask is so inspiring, it may just be that rare bird, a poetry bestseller."-- Cultural Weekly "In the image-rich, circuitous journey of Girl with Death Mask, the girl both defies and weds death and its accomplice, sex, defies and weds collective mythologies. She flies and she falls, floats and drowns. . . In this raw, kinetic masterpiece of survival Givhan assures us, even through death masks, Givhan assures us, we can kiss."--Diane Seuss, author of, Four-Legged Girl "These poems beautifully, convincingly do what I hope poems might-they disrupt what I know, or what I thought I knew. And in that way they invent for me a world. A world haunted and brutal, yes. But one mended, too, by the love and tenderness and vision and magic by which these poems are made. Again and again I found myself looking into space, sort of shaken, sort of grasping, turning and turning inside a line or phrase, inside an image or metaphor, inside somedevastating music."--Ross Gay, author of, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude "Magic, alchemy, transmogrification, and the bodys deep obsessions fill these lyrically charged poems with an unearthed power. Givhan is a poet who knows the bones of her own world so well that she can rearrange them into anything she wishes. Both surreal and rooted in truth, the complex and gorgeous poems in Girl with Death Mask continue to shake, stun, and weave their spells long after the book is closed."--Ada Lim Description for Sales People 1. An incredible collection of poems--heart-breaking and beautiful at the same time 2. Author is well connected and regularly does poetry tours for her books, especially in the Southwest 3. Winner of the 2017 Blue Light Book Prize, a partnership between Indiana University Press and Indiana Review. Indiana Review will help to promote the book and is very well connected and well known among literary journal readers. Details ISBN0253032792 Author Jennifer Givhan Publisher Indiana University Press Series Blue Light Books Year 2018 ISBN-10 0253032792 ISBN-13 9780253032799 Format Paperback Publication Date 2018-03-17 Imprint Indiana University Press Place of Publication Bloomington, IN Country of Publication United States DEWEY 811.6 Illustrations Illustrations, black and white Pages 94 Language English UK Release Date 2018-03-17 AU Release Date 2018-03-17 NZ Release Date 2018-03-17 US Release Date 2018-03-17 Birth 1956 Affiliation Yunnan Univ, China Position EDITOR Qualifications PhD Alternative 9780253032812 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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