The Private Parts of Girls (Paperback)
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Short Description for The Private Parts of Girls "The Private Parts of Girls" mixes up fairy tales and pop culture to tell smart, sassy stories from the dreamlife of girls: think "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" meets Jo Shapcott. Punks, dreamers, mermaids, prophets and warrior-brides speak in puns, riddles and kisses direct to the reader's heart.
Full description- Publisher: Salt Publishing
- Published: 01 September 2011
- Format: Paperback 80 pages
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- Categories: Poetry By Individual Poets
- ISBN 13: 9781844715619 ISBN 10: 1844715612
- Sales rank: 811,180
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Full description for The Private Parts of Girls
"The Private Parts of Girls" follows Alice down the rabbit hole, Kassandra onto Agamemnon's boat, and Red Riding Hood into the forest: it conjures the most mysterious landscape of all, the mind of a girl - a girl who might be a dancer, a warrior-bride, a transatlantic traveller, the Messiah, sick of being compared to Sylvia Plath, airborne, born in space, or lost in a sunlit field, discovering love. From "Battlestar Galactica" to The Clash, the poems mix tart, smart pop culture goodies into the dreamspace of fairy tales, as they take us on a journey - hallucinatory with culture lag - through the mind and body of a modern girl. This is poetry for "Buffy" fans (and "Twilight" haters), for readers who grew up with Angela Chase's voice-over for their lives and Air's soundtrack for "The Virgin Suicides" on their iPods, for everyone who ever wondered if Beauty secretly was the Beast.
