Bringing together the themes of death, of gender and sexuality, the poet creates a speaker whose language and experience, linked from poem to poem, reflects the true complexity of a woman's perspective. Death is a prevalent theme; anxiety, fear and paranoia simmer throughout the poems. Regret, too, is a recurrent theme, as previous experience defines us even by its absence. The societal construct of womanhood, questions of aging, and female stereotypes are opportunities for an analysis of women's roles and the speaker's need to subvert modern ideals of femininity and sexuality. The poems often employ satire or self-parody and wry humour to suggest that a woman's understanding of her options in the twenty-first century, in light of the many waves of feminism, is always in flux and always challenging.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- ADVANCE PRAISE
- Copyright
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Epigraph
- I. May to December
- Reclining Woman in Polka Dot Dress
- Natalie Among the Lilacs
- In the Service of: An Elegy to Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique
- I’ve Reached the Age of I Don’t Care
- Moving
- Ms. Pac-Man Always Rings Twice
- The Self as Both Object and Subject
- Requiem to a Marriage
- Domestication
- Grey Wolves, Endangered
- Fool’s Gold
- Contents Sale, Penthouse 1
- Orange Crush
- The Letter
- Dinner Theatre
- Lights Out
- I Bleed from Loving
- Woman at Her Toilette, c.1875
- II. Those Shadows Under Your Eyes
- Anatomy of an Injury
- They Huddle on My Lawn
- Film Noir
- White Swan/Black Swan
- Dreaming at the Roadkill Motel
- After Watching Scorcese’s The Departed
- Fear of the Zombie Ex-Girlfriend
- An Infestation
- Help Yourself
- Christmas Is in Everyone
- Ligament Issues
- Ligament Issues, Redux
- Death, Wildlife and Taxes
- III. Love, Deconstructed
- Happy Centenary, Mr. Lazarovitch*
- First-Name Basis*
- A Garden in Grosse Pointe
- Now Serving Date #2,775
- Spin Me
- Love, Deconstructed
- Bikeswept Veronica
- The Fixer
- Suite for John
- ii. A Case of the Possessive
- iii. Natural Selection
- iv. The Things He Does for Me
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
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