For Girls & Other Poems

In her second collection, Shanna Compton leads readers on a lightly satirical tour through various works of advice for young women, including antique etiquette manuals, pseudoscientific physiology textbooks, 19th-century sermons, contemporary newspaper clippings, and Internet chatter. Counseling girls on everything from fashion to family, the multiple personae in FOR GIRLS & OTHER POEMS clamor to convey their contradictory (and often ridiculous) wisdom as their polyvocal cacophony pitches toward hysterical heights.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Bloof Books
Published: 12/28/2007
ISBN: 9780615166971
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.19d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 01/21/2008 pg. 157