Virgin
β Scribed by Analicia Sotelo
- Publisher
- Milkweed Editions
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 50 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Milkweed Editions.
- ISBN
- 1571315004
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Selected by Ross Gay as winner of the inaugural Jake Adam York Prize, Analicia Sotelo's debut collection of poems is a vivid portrait of the artist as a young woman.
In Virgin , Sotelo walks the line between autobiography and mythmaking, offering up identities like dishes at a feast. These poems devour and complicate tropes of femininity--of naivetΓ©, of careless abandon--before sharply exploring the intelligence and fortitude of women, how "far & wide, / how dark & deep / this frigid female mind can go." A schoolgirl hopelessly in love. A daughter abandoned by her father. A seeming innocent in a cherry-red cardigan, lurking at the margins of a Texas barbeque. A contemporary Ariadne with her monstrous Theseus. A writer with a penchant for metaphor and a character who thwarts her own best efforts. "A Mexican American fascinator."
At every step, Sotelo's poems seduce with history, folklore, and sensory detail--grilled meat, golden habaΓ±eros, and burnt...
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