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Double Jinx
Nancy Reddy
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Description for Double Jinx
Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 139.
Double Jinx follows the multiple transformations -- both figurative and literal -- that accompany adolescence and adulthood, particularly for young women. Drawing inspiration from sources as varied as Ovid's Metamorphoses, the rewritten fairy tales in Anne Sexton's Transformations, and the wild and shifting dreamscapes of Brigit Pegeen Kelly's work, these poems track speakers attempting to construct identity. A series of poems depict the character of Nancy Drew as she delves into an obsession with a doppelganger. Cinderella wakes up to a pumpkin and a tattered dress after her prince grows tired of her. A young girl obsessed with fairy ... Read more
Double Jinx follows the multiple transformations -- both figurative and literal -- that accompany adolescence and adulthood, particularly for young women. Drawing inspiration from sources as varied as Ovid's Metamorphoses, the rewritten fairy tales in Anne Sexton's Transformations, and the wild and shifting dreamscapes of Brigit Pegeen Kelly's work, these poems track speakers attempting to construct identity. A series of poems depict the character of Nancy Drew as she delves into an obsession with a doppelganger. Cinderella wakes up to a pumpkin and a tattered dress after her prince grows tired of her. A young girl obsessed with fairy ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Milkweed Editions United States
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Minneapolis, United States
ISBN
9781571314772
SKU
V9781571314772
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About Nancy Reddy
Nancy Reddy's poems have been published in 32 Poems, Tupelo Quarterly, and Best New Poets of 2011 (selected by D.A. Powell), with poems forthcoming in Post Road and New Poetry from the Midwest. She holds an M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin, where she is currently a doctoral candidate in composition and rhetoric. She lives in Madison, WI.
Reviews for Double Jinx
Praise for Double Jinx: "Double Jinx swirls luminously through genealogy, the dark gifts of a mother and absent father, a grandmother "who wrapped the boys in rugs and propped them up / before the fire," Little Red Riding Hood, Nancy Drew, Lucy the missing link, or the servitude that here comes with being "the girl you love / and not ... Read more