| Bad Daughter Contributor(s): Gorham, Sarah (Author) |
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ISBN: 1935536168 ISBN-13: 9781935536161 Publisher: Four Way Books OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2011004084 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6" W x 8.8" (0.30 lbs) 71 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Bad Daughter explores misbehavior--its risky pleasures and often tragic consequences--through poems about "bad" daughters, sisters, and their mothers. What happens to the sister who obeys? What if a daughter refuses her inheritance? Can she? What sanctuary and what limits do worship and domesticity provide? Gorham adopts several lyric forms--'morality tales, ' ironic prayers, scaled-down sonnets, sharp meditations on concepts such as envy, detachment, and immortality--to show that the self as forged by generations of women and girls is both subversive and enduring. |