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Misprison
Winner of the 2017 Girls Like Us chapbook contest, chosen by Aracelis Girmay.
Misprison stuns with its fevered diction and deeply full and realized formal range
Misprison stuns with its fevered diction and deeply full and realized formal range
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First published July 23, 2018
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August 4, 2019
This little chapbook packs a mighty punch. It contains sixteen brief lyrics that convey a potent sense of alienation, identity, and righteous feminist anger, mixed in with some Jewish mysticism and New England Puritanism to boot. The salt air of the Atlantic, Puritan-era witches, memories of sexual trauma, Hebrew prayers, and the names of ordinary Massachusetts towns all swirl into highly allusive reveries that have a restless energy. The book's title plays on both the idea of "misprision," which is a mistake or an instance of neglect and the idea of "misprison," meaning a form of wrongful punishment or confinement. The author has a command over a range of high-modernist syntaxes, ranging from the highly fractured to the more straightforwardly lyric. The cover, which looks like it may have been hand-printed, is very nice.
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