{"product_id":"american-daughters-paperback-1","title":"American Daughters - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVa Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Virginia Smith's remarkable journey across continents, states, and centuries, she gives us poetry that gives back some of what has been taken. This is, at its heart, a collection about home, with a wide definition that encompasses the whole of the human experience, uniting those experiences in America: the ideal, the place, and the real. Layers of carefully chosen images build different, intersecting worlds, and bring them home, from Georgia O'Keeffe to Joni Mitchell, from pierogies to Prosecco, from Ru Paul's \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eDrag Race\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Man, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003efrom Covid quarantine to \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuffy the Vampire Slayer.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e Virginia embodies the voices of her sisters across America to look through their eyes, and she tells it like it is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Lorette C. Luzajic, artist, writer, editor, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ekphrastic Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Daughters, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e VA Smith channels the voices of women who bear witness to losses and gains and sustains the empathy required to imagine the lives of others. Smith recognizes that with this collection she has taken risks: to inhabit other identities-even as poetic personae-is to poke the bear of cultural appropriation. It seems a worthwhile risk: the voices she creates are unexpected and undefeated. In her world of West Elm wedding gifts and crumbling Kharkov apartment balconies, Smith curates women's experiences through keen observation and compassion in a poetry of witness-as if she has witnessed them all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Deborah Fries, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Bright Field of Everything, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e2014, Montgomery County Poet Laureate, 2006\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSmith's \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Daughters\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis a jewel box of female speakers, rich and dynamic and alive and fraught. They nurse grudges and find joy, break hearts and take care, each one a complete person laid psychologically bare through Smith's tight stanzas and sharp turns of phrase. There's the neurodivergent librarian who seeks peace among her plants-and on stage. The ex-missionary who now finds \"holiness only in things of this world\"-bike rides, activism, and threesomes. Smith reminds us that these women-like all women-have shame and pleasure and secrets of their own. It's one last grace note in a collection that sings with full force.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Kate Dailey, editor at \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 82\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.17 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 07, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51751170343200,"sku":"9781639802456","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/4b7f5c2151c6b62b803dd4afaa8d88af.webp?v=1779966251","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/american-daughters-paperback-1","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}