Girlwood

Shortlisted for the 2012 Aqua Lansdowne Prize for Poetry Winner of the 2012 John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer A linguistically inventive exaltation, a wild ride down into the privacies, the here-and-goneness of girlhood. In Girlwood, Jennifer Still's second collection, her poems come of age: they take the dare; they cross out of sapling and into maturity's thicket. But the poems don’t leave the girl behind, they bring her along: as sylph, as raconteur, as witness, as pure...