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Ransom Street is Claire Millikin's third collection of poetry with
2Leaf Press. The poems in this volume meditate on the idea of
ransom to explore legacies of violence in the southeastern United
States, ultimately seeking moments of reckoning for these unsettled
histories. A fee paid to release a prisoner, ransom can, Millikin
shows us, initiate a sacrificial act that drives people apart, but
also, when paid, can bring the homeless home. The poems in Ransom
Street move through the question of release elliptically, exploring
these abstract implications of ransom through a fictional street in
a southeastern American town. The presence of inherited violence,
cultural and familial, haunt the terrain of Ransom Street, as the
poems move through a geography of ghosts, always seeking "ransom,"
the sacrificial act that returns the self to wholeness.
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Dolls (Paperback)
Claire Millikin, Sean Frederick Forbes
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R384
Discovery Miles 3 840
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Poems that address the pain caused by gender stereotypes and racial
oppression in the American South. Claire Millikin's poetry
collection, Dolls, stages a confrontation of gendered and racial
oppression. Working through the motif of the doll, the poems
interrogate femininity in the traditional culture of the South,
where damaging structures of gender and race are upheld. Millikin
centers the book on an elegy for Sage Smith, an African American
trans woman who disappeared from Charlottesville in 2012. Through
the recurring figure of the doll-an ultra-femme figure who is
frozen, damaged, silenced-Millikin protests the conditions of
sexism in the area she was born in, offering poised responses to
the wound of injustice that still shapes the region. With a
reflective introduction by poet and scholar Sean Frederick Forbes,
Dolls presents a harsh look at the price of traditional femininity.
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