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paper \u2022 84 pages \u2022 15.95
ISBN-13:\u00a0978-1-935536-16-1<\/p>\n

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Bad Daughter<\/em><\/h1>\n

Sarah Gorham<\/h2>\n

Bad Daughter<\/em> explores misbehavior, its risky pleasures and often tragic consequences, through poems about
\u201cbad\u201d daughters, sisters, and their mothers. Gorham uses several lyric forms\u2014\u2018morality tales,\u2019 ironic
prayers, scaled-down sonnets, sharp meditations on concepts such as envy, detachment, and immortality\u2014
to show that the self as forged by generations of women and girls is, it turns out, both subversive and
enduring. From the girl who \u201claughed uproariously\/ and unlatched the bunny cages\/ to set all hoppers
free,\/ loosening a hurricane\u201d or the sisters who remember how, \u201cwhen we were bad, we were extravagant\/
like cruise ships through a canal,\u201d Bad Daughter<\/em> wonders what happens when a young woman refuses her
inheritance\u2014and whether she can, in a world where \u201cGenes are a kind of blue letter from a mother\/ to her
daughter: Good news, bad news.\u201d<\/p>\n

Biology isn\u2019t all that is handed down, and Gorham also traces the sanctuary and the limits women find in
worship and in domesticity, drawing on the Jewish proverb, \u201cWhat the daughter does, the mother did.\u201d This
varied and compelling collection ends with a cyclical return, a poem \u201cOn the Birth of a Daughter,\u201d which
tells its listener: \u201cYou will be sleepless until you plant the Princess Tree. [\u2026] Two words for its
adaptability:\/ Trash. Pioneer. Either way, it will survive a fire.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Hear it fall, laughter from a train.
Under the transparent tapping,
crawl into a hollow
sleep. First comes a dream
of cocktail banter. Then crazy…<\/p>\n

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