What Hurts Going Down

Poems

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Pub Date Mar 24 2020 | Archive Date Jul 01 2020
Penguin Random House Canada | McClelland & Stewart
Poetry & Verse

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Description

A searing exploration of girlhood in the pre- and post- #MeToo eras from the acclaimed novelist.

CBC Best Canadian Poetry of 2020
 
 
What keeps a kind girl alive in the wild? The men in town
are crapshoots, sawbucks, coins striking heads and tails.

Nancy Lee's searing collection of poems confronts how socially ingrained violence and sexual power dynamics distort and dislocate girlhood, womanhood, and relationships. Startling and visceral, the poems in What Hurts Going Down deconstruct a lifetime of survival, hover in the uneasy territory of pre- and post- #MeToo, and scrutinize the changing wagers of being female.
A searing exploration of girlhood in the pre- and post- #MeToo eras from the acclaimed novelist.

CBC Best Canadian Poetry of 2020
 
 
What keeps a kind girl alive in the wild? The men in town
are...
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EDITION Other Format
ISBN 9780771049033
PRICE $16.95 (USD)
PAGES 176

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