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Reader, I, Paperback / softback Book

Reader, I Paperback / softback

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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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