My Ariel

By (author): Sina Queyras

A poem-by-poem engagement with Sylvia Plath’s Ariel and the towering mythology surrounding it.
When I am a bitch I feel in such good company.
Nice girls never gave me anything but trouble,
Eating the ground out from under me, then waving
As I fall. Pity one has to die to see how liberating
Bad can be. But what news had I of my own self?
Words landed like razors, hours tinkled, suitors arrived.
Listen, you’ll think otherwise, but I tell you, betrayal
Is your
Get Out of Jail Free card. Take it,
Don’t look back. Of course you will. Look back.
We always do, we who adore the muscle
Of our cashmere cells, a cock that makes
Our knees weak. Darlings, don’t be sweet,
Or serviceable. Don’t accommodate,
Write in blood or don’t bother …

Where were you when you first read Ariel? Who were you? What has changed in your life? In the lives of women? In My Ariel, Sina Queyras barges into one of the iconic texts of the twentieth century, with her own family baggage in tow, exploring and exploding the cultural norms, forms, and procedures that frame and contain the lives of women.

AUTHOR

Sina Queyras

Sina Queyras is the author most recently of the poetry collections Lemon Hound and Expressway both from Coach House Books. She is also working on a novel titled, Autobiography of Childhood, which an excerpt from appeared in translation in Siecle 21 out of Paris. She has lived across Canada, in New Jersey, Brooklyn and Philadelphia. Currently she lives in Montreal where she teaches and keeps a blog, Lemon Hound.

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Dimensions:

88 Pages
8.26in * 5.37in * 0.54in
0.53lb

Published:

September 18, 2017

Publisher:

Coach House Books

ISBN:

9781552453544

Book Subjects:

POETRY / General

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Language:

eng

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