{"product_id":"girl-with-death-mask-9780253032799","title":"Girl with Death Mask","description":"\u003cp\u003eLove, tequila, sex, first periods, late nights, abuse, and heartache. The journey from girl to womanhood is brimming with transformative magic that heals even as it shatters. These are the memories that haunt the dreams of what was and what could have been in \u003ci\u003eGirl with Death Mask\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn four rich and imaginative movements of poems, Jennifer Givhan profiles the suffering and the love of a Latina girl and then mother coming to terms with sexual trauma. Her daughter is a touchstone of healing as she seeks to unravel her own emotions as well as protect the next generation of budding women with a fierceness she must find within.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eGivhan exploits changing poetic forms to expose what it means to mature in a female body swirling with tenderness, violence, and potential in an uncertain world. \u003ci\u003eGirl with Death Mask\u003c\/i\u003e is a cathartic and gripping confession of the trials of adolescence and womanhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJennifer Givhan is a Mexican-American poet from the Southwestern desert. She is the author of Landscape with \u003ci\u003eHeadless Mama\u003c\/i\u003e (2015 Pleiades Editors' Prize) and \u003ci\u003eProtection Spell\u003c\/i\u003e (2016 Miller Williams Poetry Prize Series). Her honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, a PEN\/Rosenthal Emerging Voices Fellowship, and The Frost Place Latin@ Scholarship, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in many publications including \u003ci\u003ePloughshares, POETRY, Boston Review, Blackbird\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Kenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e. She is Editor-in-Chief at \u003ci\u003eTinderbox Poetry Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and she lives with her family in New Mexico.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50318610825490,"sku":"9780253032799","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1ae3dbf3-1c95-4be0-9cec-332cfd05e3cb.jpg?v=1727559214","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/girl-with-death-mask-9780253032799","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}