Life of the Party

If A Girl Screams, and Other Poems

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  • ‘Yanked
  • every
  • emotion
  • on
  • the
  • spectrum
  • out
  • of
  • me’
  • JAMIE
  • LOFTUSIn
  • this
  • powerful,
  • candid
  • collection,
  • Olivia
  • Gatwood
  • explores
  • the
  • trials
  • and
  • triumphs
  • of
  • growing
  • up
  • as
  • a
  • woman.She
  • celebrates
  • the
  • teenage
  • girl
  • and
  • the
  • colour
  • pink
  • while
  • questioning
  • the
  • role
  • that
  • fear
  • and
  • male
  • violence
  • play
  • in
  • who
  • we
  • are
  • and
  • what
  • we
  • become.
  • These
  • piercing
  • poems
  • are
  • at
  • times
  • blistering
  • and
  • riotous,
  • and
  • at
  • times
  • soulful
  • and
  • exuberant.Balancing
  • singularity
  • of
  • view
  • with
  • a
  • sense
  • of
  • universal
  • experience,
  • Life
  • of
  • the
  • Party
  • is
  • about
  • the
  • pain,
  • the
  • joy,
  • the
  • challenge,
  • the
  • reward
  • of
  • being
  • a
  • girl
  • and
  • a
  • woman
  • in
  • today’s
  • world.‘Olivia
  • Gatwood
  • is
  • a
  • revolution
  • of
  • woman,
  • a
  • flurry
  • of
  • insight
  • harnessing
  • the
  • language
  • of
  • self-assessment
  • and
  • acceptance’
  • MAHOGANY
  • L.
  • BROWNE‘Asks
  • us
  • to
  • remember
  • the
  • stories
  • of
  • those
  • most
  • vulnerable,
  • the
  • women
  • whose
  • stories
  • are
  • too
  • often
  • ignored’
  • THEM.US‘An
  • electrifying
  • collection
  • of
  • poems
  • about
  • the
  • agonies
  • and
  • ecstasies
  • of
  • being
  • a
  • young
  • woman’
  • LEIGH STEIN
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