{"product_id":"what-girls-learn-9781646627158","title":"What Girls Learn","description":"\"Circling what is and is not home,\" the girls and women in \u003cstrong\u003eAnne Dyer Stuart\u003c\/strong\u003e's chapbook of poems, \u003cem\u003eWhat Girls Learn\u003c\/em\u003e, lead lives of damage, struggle, and self-formation. \"There is a girl at the window of the burned house,\" says one poem. \"Girls' ruin lies in others' hands\" says another. This poet is not inclined to let it lie. She narrates a life in the body, \"with its bright optimism and its slow decay\"; she tells stories of pleasures and terrors, the indelicate paradox of \"wanting to be wanted, to disappear, to blaze up\/like a prom dress thrown on a campfire.\" Even the old metaphors sound new in Stuart's hands: a sixteen year old girl asked a trick question is \"mute as cheese.\" Summer is described as \"a slow dream turning\/away, rotting on the sills . . . but you will take her anyway\/all the bruises mush inside your mouth\/all the sweet juice sticky on your chin.\" \u003cem\u003eWhat Girls Learn\u003c\/em\u003e is an accurate, painstaking, and tender exploration of girlhood and growing up into a woman who still holds the unspoiled girl she was: \"Inside: sleek, unblemished.\/Inside: the same you God\/ stitched together-hastily, in Heaven, \/ then threw down like a stone.\"\u003cstrong\u003e-Lisa Williams\u003c\/strong\u003e, winner of the Rome Prize in Literature and author of \u003cem\u003eThe Gazelle in the House, Woman Reading to the Sea \u003c\/em\u003e(Barnard Women Poets Prize), and \u003cem\u003eThe Hammered Dulcimer\u003c\/em\u003e (May Swenson Poetry Award)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-15182868\"\u003eAnne Dyer Stuart\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Finishing Line Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/03\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 40\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781646627158\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1646627156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE000000\"\u003eGeneral\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Finishing Line Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42693240619245,"sku":"9781646627158","price":19.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_1398f6ed-8986-4bbb-b4c7-303993f10ec1.jpg?v=1649858090","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/what-girls-learn-9781646627158","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}