Description

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In this striking and nostalgic collection, Emily Rose Cole unearths the fragility and resilience of daughterhood through indelible imagery that evokes new senses of the body and positions the reader in self-portraits of historical and mythological women.

About the Author

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Emily Rose Cole is a writer and lyricist from Pennsylvania. She is the author of Love & a Loaded Gun, a chapbook of persona poems from Minerva Rising Press. Her poems have appeared in American Life in Poetry, Poet Lore, and the Los Angeles Review, among others.

Praise For…

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“Fiercely imaginative, these heart-wrenching, lyric narrative poems are haunted by the body as a depository for trauma, the body with cancer, the body with MS, the body cut open and sacrificed, teaching us that grief comes from love while transforming us with exquisite and beautiful language that is simply breathtaking.”—Judy Jordan