Gog: A Novel

by Brandi George

Poetry. "GOG is an exorcism of the past, of terrible betrayals, of women churned into the earth with their stillborn children, children torn from childhood like the victims of some hideous domestic war. Brandi George conjures up a world of monsters who live down the street, work in factories, go to church, pray to a God who cannot be paying attention to the havoc he has created. And yet George's gorgeous language takes this hell and creates an aching beauty that shakes the reader. She screams, laments, exhorts, rants, weeps, prays, and in her words we see a woman who has risen from the flames of her past into a poetic paradise. GOG shimmers with a terrible beauty." Barbara Hamby"

Genres: Poetry

Unknown Binding

First published August 15, 2015

Reviews

[Jennifer Kanke · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oh my! Some of these poems are like a beautiful punch to the gut. Part Diane Wakoski and part Claudia Emerson, this collection was an emotionally tough, but enjoyable read.

[Thea Swanson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gorgeous and angering, this collection reveals the pains of girls at the mercy of familial sexual abuse and other abuses such as exorcisms: the victim laughs, and I laugh with her. Ludicrous, that this teen, who is simply finding ways to survive, should be the exorcist's focus. The demon among them has stolen the innocence of generations. The girls and women in these poems--the ones who survive--carry on, broken, living, despite.