{"product_id":"what-girls-learn-paperback","title":"What Girls Learn - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnne Dyer Stuart\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Circling what is and is not home,\" the girls and women in \u003cstrong\u003eAnne Dyer Stuart\u003c\/strong\u003e's chapbook of poems, \u003cem\u003eWhat Girls Learn\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 described as \"a slow dream turning\/away, rotting on the sills . . . but you will take her anyway\/all the bruises mush inside your mouth\/all the sweet juice sticky on your chin.\" \u003cem\u003eWhat Girls Learn\u003c\/em\u003e is an accurate, painstaking, and tender exploration of girlhood and growing up into a woman who still holds the unspoiled girl she was: \"Inside: sleek, unblemished.\/Inside: the same you God\/ stitched together-hastily, in Heaven, \/ then threw down like a stone.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-Lisa Williams\u003c\/strong\u003e, winner of the Rome Prize in Literature and author of \u003cem\u003eThe Gazelle in the House, Woman Reading to the Sea \u003c\/em\u003e(Barnard Women Poets Prize), and \u003cem\u003eThe Hammered Dulcimer\u003c\/em\u003e (May Swenson Poetry Award)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 40\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.1 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 03, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42707360219199,"sku":"9781646627158","price":25.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/57b9c458c916bc2603a0dd4e486af119.webp?v=1765043805","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/what-girls-learn-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}