Bad Daughter

By: Sarah Gorham

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Paperback | 11 October 2011

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84 Pages

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22.23 x 15.24 x 0.64

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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.

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Publishers Weekly" Library Journal" "The clear-eyed poems of Sarabande Books publisher Gorham's fourth collection of poems charts the sometimes transcendent, sometimes terrifying, often uneasy spaces that open between mothers and daughters who then become mothers themselves. ..."-- "Publishers Weekly" (10/24/2011 12:00:00 AM) In her fourth collection, Gorham (The Cure) writes about life-changing events (the birth of a daughter) as well as ordinary ones (lost mittens) in language both musical and precise. ... Throughout, Gorham leaps among subjects, her unexpected trajectories reminiscent of Emily Dickinson's work. A wonderful collection, not to be missed, that offers both serious and humorous insights into the human condition.-- "Library Journal" (10/24/2011 12:00:00 AM) The clear-eyed poems of Sarabande Books publisher Gorham's fourth collection of poems charts the sometimes transcendent, sometimes terrifying, often uneasy spaces that open between mothers and daughters who then become mothers themselves. ... Publishers Weekly"

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