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- The poems in Girl after Girl after Girl celebrate the connections between mothers and daughters from generation to generation.
- About the Author: Nicole Cooley is the author of Breach, Milk Dress, The Afflicted Girls, and Resurrection.
- 80 Pages
- Poetry, American
- Series Name: Barataria Poetry
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The poems in Girl after Girl after Girl celebrate the connections between mothers and daughters from generation to generation. Through an acknowledgment of mothers' unconditional love, the memories evoked by physical objects, and the stories mothers pass down, these poems explore the common thread that stretches backward and forward, running through the lives of women and binding them together in an unbroken chain of years.Review Quotes
These poems sing with rapturous speed, offering an Alice-in-Wonderland domestic madness, now spouting recipes, now singing 'baby, baby, baby' . . . a chorus of irrepressible girls and mothers rattle loudly in one's brain and ears long after the reading. The book vibrantly teeters between the personal and historical, between intergenerational melodrama and sheer joy. A thoroughly pleasurable read, indeed, every raucous girl poet must have this book on her poetry shelf!--Marilyn Chin
To some extent, all poets' imaginations resemble a magpie's nest: an assemblage of objects both aesthetically alluring and practically constructive. In the richly detailed and marvelously imaginative Girl after Girl after Girl, Nicole Cooley invites us deep into the magpie nest of one woman's experience, reminding us that successful motherhood requires a site capable of transitioning from the infant's cradle to the adolescent's diving board. Each poem enacts maternity's central paradox--how to balance the powerful sense of responsibility for the young girls' lives entrusted to us ('someone blew out the fragile shell of your daughter's egg') with the desire to raise empowered, autonomous women ('I wish to hold the edges of my miniskirt in my own hands, / to allow whoever I want beneath it'). Walking that fraught edge with this fearless poet-mother is a transformative reading experience.--Kate Daniels
About the Author
Nicole Cooley is the author of Breach, Milk Dress, The Afflicted Girls, and Resurrection. A native of New Orleans, Cooley directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College-CUNY, where she is a professor of English.Dimensions (Overall): 8.9 Inches (H) x 5.9 Inches (W) x .3 Inches (D)
Weight: .3 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 80
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: American
Series Title: Barataria Poetry
Publisher: LSU Press
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Nicole Cooley
Language: English
Street Date: September 13, 2017
TCIN: 88993919
UPC: 9780807166833
Item Number (DPCI): 247-58-0826
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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