![]() ![]() She is also the author of four books of creative nonfiction. Sue William Silverman's first poetry collection is Hieroglyphics in Neon. Because The Girl is, above all else, a badass. The poems' sense of breathlessness reflects The Girl's absolute need to control her own destiny, to outrun her past, while at the same time chasing a future she alone has envisioned and embodied. So, she resists, takes action to overturn society's suffocating ideal of Good Girldom. If the Girl Never Learns moves from the personal to the mythic to the apocalyptic, because The Girl would do anything, even go to hell, to save her soul. Literati is excited to welcome poet Sue William Silverman in celebration of her new poetry collection If the Girl Never Learns: Poems. Sue will be joined by fellow poets Keith Taylor, Elizabeth Schumhl, and Marc Sheehan who will be reading from their own work.įrom the opening lines, it's clear The Girl at the center of these poems is damaged-which is another way to say she's a survivor. ![]()
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