Good Girl and Other Yearnings - by Isabelle Correa (Paperback)

About the Book

"Correa's debut full-length collection explores how trauma shakes the foundations of identity, and how healing happens on every level: atomic, corporeal, corporate, and cosmic. This poetry collection tells the story of survival, desire, and shame. Correa covers a vast landscape of experience -- childhood, fertility, loss, abuse, drugs, astrology, the 9-5-in a singular voice that makes you feel grounded and untethered all at once. Raw and lyrical, personal and expansive, achingly honest and linguistically delightful, these poems are an evocative reclamation of self, a bold bet on existential hope when existential dread is throwing punches."--

Book Synopsis

From "Quantum Mechanics And You" to "Little Red Riding Hood Buys A 6-Pack After EMDR," these poems turn the confessional genre on its head.

Correa's debut full-length collection explores how trauma shakes the foundations of identity, and how healing happens on every level: atomic, corporeal, corporate, and cosmic. Raw and lyrical, personal and expansive, these poems are an evocative reclamation of self, a bold bet on existential hope when existential dread is throwing punches.

Review Quotes

"No one likes a mirror when they expected a window. Isabelle Correa's Good Girl and Other Yearnings offers both--each poem creates a kaleidoscope of girlhood, sisterhood, longing, and above all, a truth that a single reflection can't contain."--Caroline Earleywine, I Now Pronounce You

About the Author

Isabelle Correa is a poet from Washington state now living in Mexico City. She studied creative writing at Western Washington University, is the winner of the 2024 Jack McCarthy Book Prize, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and the author of the chapbook Sex is From Mars But I Love You From Venus . Her work has appeared in Pank, Third Point Press, The Rebis, and more.