Hover Over Her - 9781606352977

Hover Over HerAuthor(s): Leah Poole Osowski\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Kent State University Press, United States\nImprint: Kent State University Press\nISBN-13: 9781606352977, 978-1606352977\nSynopsis\nIn Leah Osowskis exquisite debut, hover over her, the poet immerses us in geographies of unrealized adolescence, where young women are singular amidst their cacophonous backdrops, whether beside a lake, inside a Dali painting, or stretched out in a flower garden. These spaces are turned inside out for us through Osowskis linguistic curiosity and unforgettable imagistic palate. Negative possibilities hang around every corner as well, showing us the ways in which we are also complicit in the constructions and obstructions of gender. As the speaker in she as pronoun says, shes I and shes you every / time you hid beneath your own arms. But through the evolution and renaissance of Osowskis speaker, we find affirmation in these shared connections, transparency in the landscapes of growte