{"product_id":"virgin-poems-9781571315007","title":"Virgin: Poems","description":"Selected by Ross Gay as winner of the inaugural Jake Adam York Prize, Analicia Sotelo's debut collection of poems is a vivid portrait of the artist as a young woman. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eVirgin\u003c\/i\u003e, Sotelo walks the line between autobiography and mythmaking, offering up identities like dishes at a feast. These poems devour and complicate tropes of femininity--of naivet , of careless abandon--before sharply exploring the intelligence and fortitude of women, how \"far \u0026amp; wide, \/ how dark \u0026amp; deep \/ this frigid female mind can go.\" A schoolgirl hopelessly in love. A daughter abandoned by her father. A seeming innocent in a cherry-red cardigan, lurking at the margins of a Texas barbeque. A contemporary Ariadne with her monstrous Theseus. A writer with a penchant for metaphor and a character who thwarts her own best efforts. \"A Mexican American fascinator.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e At every step, Sotelo's poems seduce with history, folklore, and sensory detail--grilled meat, golden haba eros, and burnt sugar--before delivering clear-eyed and eviscerating insights into power, deceit, relationships, and ourselves. Here is what it means to love someone without truly understanding them. Here is what it means to be cruel. And here is what it means to become an artist, of words and of the self. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Blistering and gorgeous, \u003ci\u003eVirgin\u003c\/i\u003e is an audacious act of imaginative self-mythology from one of our most promising young poets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/20\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781571315007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/18\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2018 pg. 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/15\/2018 pg. 64\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Analicia Sotelo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36660152598684,"sku":"9781571315007","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_95a6a73f-bb10-428b-9482-66706ba16fe4.jpg?v=1603896211","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/virgin-poems-9781571315007","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}