Reader, I
Published on 16. April 2024
978-1-956046-26-7 (ISBN)
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A brand new collection from multi-award winning poet Corey Van Landingham.
Reader, I draws its title from the conclusion to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre: ?Reader, I married him.? Spanning the first years of a marriage, the speaker in Reader, I both courts and eschews nuptial myths, as its speaker?tender and callous, skeptical and hopeful, daughter and lover?finds a role for herself in marriage, in history, in something beyond the self. While these poems burn with a Plathian fire, they also address and invite in a reader who is, as in Jane Eyre, a confidant. Steeped in a world of husbands and fathers, patriarchal nations and power structures, Reader, I traverses bowling alleys and hospital rooms, ancient Troy and public swimming pools, to envision domestic life as a metaphor for civic life, and vice versa.
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Reader, I
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05/2024
Sarabande Books, Incorporated
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Corey Van Landingham is the author of Antidote and Love Letter to Who Owns the Heavens. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, she teaches Creative Writing at the University of Illinois.
