From George Ella Lyon comes a dynamic and humorous collection
examining the transformations of one woman's life as she tries on,
takes on, and peels off identities learned from family stories,
gender, fairy tales, and myths. She Let Herself Go spirals through
girlhood, wifehood, motherhood, and writerhood, through the poet's
evolution, casting a discerning -- and often irreverent -- eye on
the cultural expectations that have shaped her. Claiming Virginia
Woolf as word-mother, these poems converse with powerful feminist
poets, including Muriel Rukeyser, Ruth Stone, and Grace Paley.
Beginning with the physical "change of life," where the poet is
"Strung / on muscle / of myth and miracle / a uterine knot / of
work and words" Lyon reveals the interiors of previous selves like
the opening of a nesting doll. Although the collection upholds a
unifying theme, Lyon's work resists homogeneity. As with the many
personas the poet assumes and casts aside, the poems take on wildly
divergent shapes that must be recognized before the parts can be
united in a new way.
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