TY  - GEN
T1  - Virgin : poems
A1  - Sotelo, Analicia
LA  - English
PP  - Minneapolis, Minnesota
PB  - Milkweed Editions
YR  - 2018
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1001968562
AB  - Selected by Ross Gay as winner of the inaugural Jake Adam York Prize, Analicia Sotelo's debut collection of poems is a vivid portrait of the artist as a young woman. In Virgin, Sotelo walks the line between autobiography and mythmaking, offering up identities like dishes at a feast. These poems devour and complicate tropes of femininity'of naivetE, of careless abandon'before sharply exploring the intelligence and fortitude of women, how 'far & wide, / how dark & deep / this frigid female mind can go.' A schoolgirl hopelessly in love. A daughter abandoned by her father. A seeming innocent in a cherry-red cardigan, lurking at the margins of a Texas barbeque. A contemporary Ariadne with her monstrous Theseus. A writer with a penchant for metaphor and a character who thwarts her own best efforts. 'A Mexican American fascinator.' At every step, Sotelo's poems seduce with history, folklore, and sensory detail'grilled meat, golden habaNeros, and burnt sugar'before delivering clear-eyed and eviscerating insights into power, deceit, relationships, and ourselves. Here is what it means to love someone without truly understanding them. Here is what it means to be cruel. And here is what it means to become an artist, of words and of the self. Blistering and gorgeous, Virgin is an audacious act of imaginative self-mythology from one of our most promising young poets.
CN  - PS3619.O862
SN  - 9781571319777
SN  - 1571319778
SN  - 9781571315007 (softcover : acid-free paper)
SN  - 9781571315007
KW  - American poetry : 21st century.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
KW  - American poetry
KW  - 2000-2099
KW  - Poetry (Poetic Works By One Author)
KW  - Poetry
ER  -