{"product_id":"girls-guide-to-leaving","title":"Girl's Guide to Leaving","description":"“Fanged and feathered,” Laura Villareal fights against expectations imbedded in her existence—the expectations bound in being a woman, being queer, being Latinx—and claws her way to her own identity. Her poetry covers a vast range, invoking Mexican folklore, exploring the process of healing while hurting, and the complicated conflict between intergenerational trauma and the love of family—continuously reasserting that leaving is never a singular action, that healing isn’t completed in a day, that living is a process, not a straight line.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Tumbleweeds and wandering cacti litter the page, coyotes croon at the prose. In poems haunted by specters of intimate partner violence, \u003ci\u003eGirl’s Guide to Leaving\u003c\/i\u003e considers what it means to escape the love that trapped you and find a temporary home in the barely cooled ashes of a wildfire.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e   listen  this part is importantyou must never let yourself try \u0026amp; find the first place you\u003cbr\u003e took   root    you     must    live     like    a    tumbleweed\u003cbr\u003e you   must   never  call  out  into   the  desert blue night\u003cbr\u003e but   you  will  anyways   I   know   this   you’ll  cry   out\u003cbr\u003e as  the coyotes do weep\u003cbr\u003e —Excerpt from “Desert Note”","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39921466572883,"sku":"9780299336844","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780299336844.jpg?v=1777987822","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/girls-guide-to-leaving","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}