Lo (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781609388997)

Lo maps the deprivation and richness of a rural girlhood and offers an intimate portrait of the woman--tender, hungry, hopeful--who manages to emerge. In a series of lyric odes and elegies, Lo explores the notion that we can be partially constituted by lack--poverty, neglect, isolation. The child in the book's early sections is beloved and lonely, cherished and abused, lucky and imperiled, and by leaning into this complexity the poems render a tentative and shimmering space sometimes occluded, the space occupied by a girl coming to find herself and the world beautiful, even as that world harms her.


Author: Melissa Crowe
ISBN-10: 1609388992
ISBN-13: 9781609388997
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Language: English
Published: 05/24/2023
Pages: 88
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.15lbs
Size: 8.82h x 5.83w x 0.32d

Review Citation(s):
Shelf Awareness 05/26/2023