Description:
What we learn from fairy tales is that things do not turn out so well for the Grimm Girl. Her pain and her losses are not hers alone, however, but remain recognizable to all women through the ages. The poems in this collection explore various challenges -- both physical and emotional -- of moving from girlhood to womanhood in 20th century America, a contemporary world, not so far removed from the brothers Grimm.
Brief description: Hayley Mitchell Haugen holds a Ph.D. in 20th Century American Literature from Ohio University and an MFA in poetry from the University of Washington. She is currently Associate Professor of English at Ohio University Southern, where she teaches courses in composition, American literature, and creative writing. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming, in Nerve Cowboy, Poetry Northwest, Rattle, Slant, Spillway, and many other journals. Critical essays appear in The Body in Medical Culture; On the Literary Nonfiction of Nancy Mairs; and Stephen King's Contemporary Classics: Reflections on the Modern Master of Horror, and elsewhere.
Review Quotes: "You are entering upon a great poet's crafted articulation of suffering. But you must no more shy from it than she has. You will be strengthened by your assumption of her physical mantle. You will share in beauty wrung from heroic struggle.You may find yourself turning your own painful experiences into poems." Gerald Locklin Author: The Life Force Poems, and other works.