{"product_id":"the-dagger-between-her-teeth-jennifer-lovegrove-9781550225112","title":"The Dagger Between Her Teeth","description":"Skulls and crossbones: poetic piracy. Burning barns, drunken Christmases, scars, hospitals, serial killers, and, eventually, the possibilities of self-preservation and hope. \u003ci\u003eThe Dagger Between Her Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e is Jennifer LoveGrove's bloodthirsty debut. Powerfully topical, it's a rare collection of poetry -- one that confronts notions of violence, both physical and emotional, by focusing on a woman's strength of will and capacity for ferocity. In \u003ci\u003eThe Dagger Between Her Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e, LoveGrove resurrects and reinvents the dramatic young lives of two eighteenth-century corsairs, Anne Bonny and Mary Read. Alive with the golden age of piracy but infused with the pulse of now, these poems shed more blood than a Tarantino flick. LoveGrove's work provokes with theatrical plundering, creative cross-dressing, and vicious vengeance: \"Disdain reddens my blood -- I \/ know well I killed \/ my own husband and took \/ his clothes to be out here.\" Still other poems examine the conflicting mythologies of Lilith, Adam's first wife, who was evicted from Eden for her sexual aggression. Disputed and co-opted, Lilith has been blamed for a vast array of \"deviance,\" as well as for miscarriages, wet dreams, nightmares in children, and lustful women -- these poems explore the more ominous elements of her mythology. But there is also a part of The Dagger Between Her Teeth that is informed by more personal experience, from disrupted family dynamics to the failure of romance: \"You're not as fragile as you think you are; \/ I know you didn't snap \/ any of those feathered necks \/ yourself. It's all just tapeloops \/ and backward masking, take-out \/ wings and old Talking Heads albums.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jennifer Lovegrove\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1550225111\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781550225112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Misfit Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.30w x 0.30d","brand":"Jennifer Lovegrove","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48518902546687,"sku":"9781550225112","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9a257bc7-b05e-4dc9-ae40-b034dd514018.jpg?v=1778736091","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-dagger-between-her-teeth-jennifer-lovegrove-9781550225112","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}