Good Grief, the Ground by Margaret Ray, Stephanie Burt - 9781950774845

Name: Good Grief, the Ground by Margaret Ray, Stephanie Burt - 9781950774845
Brand: BOA Editions, Limited

BOA Editions, Limited

Good Grief, the GroundAuthor(s): Margaret Ray, Stephanie Burt\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: BOA Editions, Limited, United States\nImprint: BOA Editions, Limited\nISBN-13: 9781950774845, 978-1950774845\nSynopsis\nMargaret Ray is pulling back the curtains on our societal performance of culture, guiding an exposing light to the daily performance that is life in a womans body.\n\nSelected by Stephanie Burt as the winner of the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize, Rays Good Grief, the Ground interrogates the everyday violences nonchalantly inflicted unto women through personal, political, and national lenses. Moving between adolescence and adulthood, Ray alternates between dark humor and heart-wrenching honesty to explore grief, anxiety, queer longing, girlhood, escape from an abusive relationship, and the dangers of lending language to a thing. With stunning wit and precision and attention, we see Ray show us what it is to be human: the mess of tenderness and darkness and animosity.\n\nOut of th.