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What Girls Learn
"Circling what is and is not home," the girls and women in Anne Dyer Stuart's chapbook of poems, What Girls Learn, lead lives of damage, struggle, and self-formation. "There is a girl at the window of the burned house," says one poem. "Girls' ruin lies in others' hands" says another. This poet is not inclined to let it lie. She narrates a life in the body, "with its bright optimism and its slow decay"; she tells stories of pleasures and terrors, the indelicate paradox of "wanting to be wanted, to disappear, to blaze up/like a prom dress thrown on a campfire." Even the old metaphors sound new in Stuart's hands: a sixteen year old girl asked a trick question is "mute as cheese." Summer is desc...
Chariton Review 42.1 & 2
Chariton Review 2019/20 Combined Issue
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