Haunting and candid, A Girl's A Gun introduces a poet whose bold
voice merges heightened lyricism with compelling narrative. Steeped
in storytelling traditions, the poems in Rachel Danielle Peterson's
debut collection exhibit linguistic dexterity and mastery of form
as the poet mixes lyrical paragraphs, sonnets, and interview-style
poems with free verse. Hey Yvonne! The memoree of some strangerhis
shoulder's shadow plunges inta our place: thunk, thunk. Run!
Mother's vowels pierce haze. Mother, can we distil the pink
threads, fabric, black ball cap, the odor of Bud Light, fills the
door she walks through, dust, Mamma. Dust is all we is Taken
together, the poems present the coming-of-age story of a girl born
in the mountains of rural eastern Kentucky, tracing her journey
into a wider world of experience. While the early poems are steeped
in Appalachian speech and culture -- a hybrid of a child's diction
and regional dialect -- the language shifts as the collection
progresses, becoming more standard. The speaker engages with hard
issues surrounding gender and violence in contemporary life and
explores what it means to be an artist in a culture that favors a
literal interpretation of reality. Exploring issues of identity,
place, and the call to create, this collection tackles subjects
that will shock, touch, and bewilder readers while giving voice to
an underrepresented and perhaps even unprecedented perspective in
poetry.
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