Life of the Party
Subtitle: Poems
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group; Dial Press Trade Paperback
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781984801906
Subjects: American literature
Description: "...Olivia Gatwood is a thrilling new voice in contemporary feminist poetry. In Life of the Party, she weaves together her own coming of age with an investigation into our culture's romanticization of violence against women. In precise, searing language--at times blistering and riotous, at times soulful and exuberant--she explores the boundary between what is real and what is imagined in a life saturated with fear. How does one grow from a girl to a woman in a world wracked by violence? Where is the line between perpetrator and victim? What is the meaning of bravery? Visceral and haunting, this multifaceted collection illustrates that what happens to our bodies makes us who we are"--