Double Jinx: Poems
แกแแฅ. 2015 ยท Milkweed Editions
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โDark narratives about femininity . . . Reddy channels the vibe and energy of Plath and Sexton, but itโs her arresting language thatโs the real draw here.โ โPublishers Weekly
Double Jinx follows the multiple transformationsโboth figurative and literalโthat accompany adolescence and adulthood, particularly for young women. Drawing inspiration from sources as varied as Ovidโs Metamorphoses, the rewritten fairy tales in Anne Sextonโs Transformations, and the wild and shifting dreamscapes of Brigit Pegeen Kellyโs work, these poems track speakers attempting to construct identity.
A series of poems depict the character of Nancy Drew as she delves into an obsession with a doppelgรคnger. Cinderella wakes up to a pumpkin and a tattered dress after her prince grows tired of her. A young girl obsessed with fairy tales becomes fascinated with a copy of Greyโs Anatomy in which she finds a โpink girl pinned to the page as if in vivisection. Could she / be pink inside like that? No decent girl / would go around the world like that, uncooked.โ
The collection culminates in an understanding of the ways we construct ourselves, whether it be by way of imitation, performance, and/or transformation. And it looks forward as well, for in coming to understand our identities as essentially malleable, we are liberated. Or as the author writes, โweโll be our own gods now.โ
โExquisitely crafted poems . . . an exploration of womanโs manifold selves.โ โRebecca Dunham, author of Cold Pastoral
Double Jinx follows the multiple transformationsโboth figurative and literalโthat accompany adolescence and adulthood, particularly for young women. Drawing inspiration from sources as varied as Ovidโs Metamorphoses, the rewritten fairy tales in Anne Sextonโs Transformations, and the wild and shifting dreamscapes of Brigit Pegeen Kellyโs work, these poems track speakers attempting to construct identity.
A series of poems depict the character of Nancy Drew as she delves into an obsession with a doppelgรคnger. Cinderella wakes up to a pumpkin and a tattered dress after her prince grows tired of her. A young girl obsessed with fairy tales becomes fascinated with a copy of Greyโs Anatomy in which she finds a โpink girl pinned to the page as if in vivisection. Could she / be pink inside like that? No decent girl / would go around the world like that, uncooked.โ
The collection culminates in an understanding of the ways we construct ourselves, whether it be by way of imitation, performance, and/or transformation. And it looks forward as well, for in coming to understand our identities as essentially malleable, we are liberated. Or as the author writes, โweโll be our own gods now.โ
โExquisitely crafted poems . . . an exploration of womanโs manifold selves.โ โRebecca Dunham, author of Cold Pastoral
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Nancy Reddy's poems have been published in 32 Poems, Tupelo Quarterly, and Best New Poets of 2011 (selected by D.A. Powell), with poems forthcoming in Post Road and New Poetry from the Midwest. She holds an M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin, where she is currently a doctoral candidate in composition and rhetoric. She lives in Madison, WI.
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