Who's Going to Love the Dying Girl?
Rolfe, Bree
ISBN 10: 1950730778 ISBN 13: 9781950730773
Published by Unsolicited Press, 2021
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WHO'S GOING TO LOVE THE DYING GIRL? by Bree Rolfe is a revolutionary debut poetry collection touching on society, loss, illness, and learning to grasp with things that cannot be changed. Rolfe executes verse with precision and fierceness:
Desert Tarot
and this is where
people come
to forget
their mothers
we envy darkness
noble, devilish
in its necessity
leaves like tap
dancers, skittered
across stone slabs
landed at the feet
of strange cacti
we are blind
powerless
in this blaze
your grace failed
when you needed
to bury a memory
in a shallow
grave in West Texas
we are burnt
limitless
in our catharsis
you delved too far
reoriented yourself
beneath too much sky
saw everything
it contained
a cup held
by a hand
that reached
from heavens
and stretched
warnings
in the offing
we are not
the salamander
who can pass through
fire unscathed
but each cloud
contained wings
and you intend
to wear a crown
of your haunted
thoughts
About the Author: Bree Rolfe lives in Austin, TX where she teaches writing and literature to the mostly reluctant, but always loveable, teenagers at James Bowie High School. Her work has appeared in Saul Williams' poetry anthology Chorus: A Literary Mixtape, the Barefoot Muse Anthology Forgetting Home: Poems About Alzheimer's, the Redpaint Hill Anthology Mother is a Verb, and 5AM Magazine. She holds an MFA from the Writing Seminars at Bennington College.
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Title: Who's Going to Love the Dying Girl?
Publisher: Unsolicited Press
Publication Date: 2021
Binding: paperback
Condition: Good