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- ISBN 9781632430960
- Weight: 226g
- Dimensions: 155 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher: Omnidawn Publishing
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Poems that address cultural pressures placed on women and girls.
This is a book for those who were raised to be girls and expected to become women, for those who were told they were too girly and not girly enough, and for those who were ogled, talked over, touched, fed, imagined, and indoctrinated in ways they didn’t want. Angela Hume considers the persistent instructions to smile, be quiet, and act happy, all administered with the promise that this forced behavior would make everything better. The poems address rigid social norms and, ultimately, walk through the uncomfortable realizations about the bigger systems at play and call on us to examine our own complicity in them.
Angela Hume is the author of Middle Time, also published by Omnidawn. Their chapbooks include Meat Habitats, Melos, The Middle, and Second Story of Your Body. With Gillian Osborne, they coedited Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field.
