The Paper Girl - Couverture souple

Brophy, Jessica M

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1635340020 ISBN 13 : 9781635340020

Editeur : Finishing Line Press, 2016

Synopsis

The Paper Girl is a poetry chapbook that details the coming of age story of a daughter growing up in a Baptist fundamentalist home in New Jersey. The girl is a working class paper girl who is sometimes invited into the private world of her privileged neighbor's lives where she tries to make sense of what family means. She is good at observing, processing, and reflecting upon the loneliness, kindness, and freedom of others around her. But to her own horror, she also internalizes their impressions about the port wine stain birthmark on her face, and dizzy from the orthodoxy of her mother's rules and religion, she struggles to find a language to narrate her own story.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jessica Margaret Brophy is a New Jersey native and a poet who writes about family quirks, nature's luster, childhood foods, the body, and spiritual identity. She is also a scholar of the sublime, addressing issues within women's studies and the black aesthetic of African American female poets. She has published scholarship on the poetry of Sharon Olds, Jean Toomer, Paulette Childress White, and Rita Dove. She teaches as a freelance academic at both Lynchburg College and the local community college. Among other journals, her poetry has appeared in Natural Bridge: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry, Alimentum: The Literature of Food, and Awakenings Review and is forthcoming in a special poetry anthology of Blue Lyra Review, Parts of the Whole: Poetry of the Body. Only until she began writing about the port wine stain birthmark on her face (about three years ago) was she able to find a language to write about anything else. She knew her first collection of poetry would have to be about who she was before finding this language-the observing, questioning, reflecting child. Brophy is currently the creative writing editor at The First Unitarian Church of Lynchburg, Virginia, organizer of a monthly series called "Poetry Talk" at Africa House, and has recently begun offering writing consultation services to young professional women at www.beautyfullwriting.com.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Finishing Line Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1635340020
• ISBN 13: 9781635340020
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 44
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible