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Reader, I
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- Book Synopsis
- A brand new collection from multi-award winning poet Corey Van Landingham. Reader, I draws its title from the conclusion to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre: "Reader, I married him." Spanning the first years of a marriage, the speaker in Reader, I both courts and eschews nuptial myths, as its speaker-tender and callous, skeptical and hopeful, daughter and lover-finds a role for herself in marriage, in history, in something beyond the self. While these poems burn with a Plathian fire, they also address and invite in a reader who is, as in Jane Eyre, a confidant. Steeped in a world of husbands and fathers, patriarchal nations and power structures, Reader, I traverses bowling alleys and hospital rooms, ancient Troy and public swimming pools, to envision domestic life as a metaphor for civic life, and vice versa.
- About The Author
- Corey Van Landingham is the author of Antidote and Love Letter to Who Owns the Heavens. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, she teaches Creative Writing at the University of Illinois.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781956046250
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Sarabande Books, (30 May 2024)
- Number of Pages
- 86
- Weight
- 170 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 229 x 152 x 9 mm
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