Reader, I /
Reader, I draws its title from the conclusion to Charlotte Bront͡e'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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Louisville, Kentucky :
Sarabande Books,
[2024].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Reader, I draws its title from the conclusion to Charlotte Bront͡e'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. |
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| Physical Description: | 86 pages : portrait ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781956046250 1956046259 |