Girl's Guide to Leaving

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-299-33684-4
Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press

Buch, Englisch, 80 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 172 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 159 g

Reihe: Wisconsin Poetry Series

“Fanged and feathered,” Laura Villareal fights against expectations imbedded in her existence—the expectations bound in being a woman, being queer, being Latinx—and claws her way to her own identity. Her poetry covers a vast range, invoking Mexican folklore, exploring the process of healing while hurting, and the complicated conflict between intergenerational trauma and the love of family—continuously reasserting that leaving is never a singular action, that healing isn’t completed in a day, that living is a process, not a straight line.

Tumbleweeds and wandering cacti litter the page, coyotes croon at the prose. In poems haunted by specters of intimate partner violence, Girl’s Guide to Leaving considers what it means to escape the love that trapped you and find a temporary home in the barely cooled ashes of a wildfire.
 
  listen  this part is importantyou must never let yourself try & find the first place you
took   root    you     must    live     like    a    tumbleweed
you   must   never  call  out  into   the  desert blue night
but   you  will  anyways   I   know   this   you’ll  cry   out
as  the coyotes do weep
—Excerpt from “Desert Note”

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Girl’s Guide to Leaving
- Trapping Season
- The Conditions for Existing as Proposed by X, Y, & Z (What Makes Sense, What’s Safe, What’s Productive)
- Before Skipping Town
- Sardine Spine
- The Long Trajectory of Grief
- Afterwards
- I Still Check for Monsters Before I Go to Bed
- Baby Teeth
- Outgrowing a Home
- Desert Note
- The Astronomer’s Daughter
- Crush
- Home Is Where the Closet Is
- Inside the Foxhole
- Inside All the Places I Can’t See
- Down By the Water
- Slash-and-Burn
- If I Invited You to Love Me
- Mother // Monster
- Thanksgivings
- Heart Attack
- Curas & Dichos
- My Worries Have Worries
- Uncertainty with Fish Scales
- Solar Eclipse // Myself In Orbit
- (My)thology
- A Bedtime Story About the Heart
- Ending in Contrition or Resignation
- When Joy Split Open
- Seeds
- Boiling Puffins
- 8 Chickens in a Papier-MÂché Human: A Bedtime Story
- Before You Visited
- Acknowledgments

Über Autor(innen)

Laura Villareal is a 2019–21 National Book Critics Circle Emerging Fellow, a 2020–21 Stadler Fellow, and the author of the chapbook The Cartography of Sleep. She works on an interview series at F(r)iction called “Writers Talking about Anything but Writing.” Her work has appeared in AGNI, Grist, Black Warrior Review, Waxwing, and elsewhere.