{"product_id":"the-dead-girls-speak-in-unison-9780996586863","title":"The Dead Girls Speak In Unison","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Danielle Pafunda abolishes the stereotype of prissy, dainty girls in her thrilling poetry collection The Dead Girls Speak in Unison. Set in a surrealistic underworld, takes on the collective voice of empowered female corpses and ironically uses quaint language and structure to describe the true nature of women.  ...] Pafunda's collection leaves readers craving more of its 'rotten pages.' 'If you're looking for something pretty, ' don't look here. \u003cstrong\u003e--\u003cem\u003eVerse\u003c\/em\u003e, Brittany Capps - \u003c\/strong\u003e\"We don't often see choral speakers, but speaking in unison gives these 'girls' collective presence, forcing us to face gender violence.  T]he girls gain a certain power in this...raw girls who bypass maturity, who are as rank and offensive as possible. These unrefined girls are deeply unsettling.\" \u003cstrong\u003e--\u003cem\u003eThe Plot\u003c\/em\u003e, Heidi Czerwiec - Danielle Pafunda\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Dead Girls Speak in Unison\u003c\/em\u003e (Bloof Books, 2017), \u003cem\u003eNatural History Rape Museum\u003c\/em\u003e (Bloof Books, 2013), \u003cem\u003eManhater\u003c\/em\u003e (Dusie Press, 2012), \u003cem\u003eIatrogenic: Their Testimonies\u003c\/em\u003e (Noemi Press, 2010), \u003cem\u003eMy Zorba\u003c\/em\u003e (Bloof Books, 2008), \u003cem\u003ePretty Young Thing\u003c\/em\u003e (Soft Skull Press, 2005), and the chapbooks \u003cem\u003eCram\u003c\/em\u003e (Essay Press, 2015) and \u003cem\u003eWhen You Left Me in the Rutted Terrain of Our Love at the Border, Which I Could Not Cross, Remaining a Citizen of this Corrupt Land\u003c\/em\u003e (Birds of Lace, 2014). Her poems have appeared in three editions of \u003cem\u003eThe Best American Poetry \u003c\/em\u003eand have been anthologized in \u003cem\u003eBeauty is a Verb\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003cem\u003eThe Poetics of Disability \u003c\/em\u003e(Cinco Puntos Press, 2011), \u003cem\u003eGurlesque: The New Grrly, Grotesque, Burlesque Poetics \u003c\/em\u003e(Saturnalia Books, 2010), \u003cem\u003eNot for Mothers Only: Contemporary Poems on Child-Getting \u0026amp; Child Rearing\u003c\/em\u003e (Fence Books, 2007), \u003cem\u003eHick Poetics\u003c\/em\u003e (Lost Roads Press, 2015) and \u003cem\u003ePlease Excuse This Poem: 100 Poets for the Next Generation \u003c\/em\u003e(Penguin, 2015).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloof Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50925066551570,"sku":"9780996586863","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_19679e8f-debf-4984-ab05-b60488fd89e3.jpg?v=1738974964","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-dead-girls-speak-in-unison-9780996586863","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}