This Will Be Good
Mallory Tater's This Will Be Good tells the story of a young woman's burgeoning femininity as it brushes up against an emerging eating disorder. As the difficulties of her disease reveal themselves, they ultimately disrupt family relationships and friendships.

These poems deftly bear witness to the performance of femininity and gender construction to reveal the shrinking mind and body of a girl trying to find her place in the world, and whose overflowing adolescent hope for a future will not subside.
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This Will Be Good
Mallory Tater's This Will Be Good tells the story of a young woman's burgeoning femininity as it brushes up against an emerging eating disorder. As the difficulties of her disease reveal themselves, they ultimately disrupt family relationships and friendships.

These poems deftly bear witness to the performance of femininity and gender construction to reveal the shrinking mind and body of a girl trying to find her place in the world, and whose overflowing adolescent hope for a future will not subside.
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This Will Be Good

This Will Be Good

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This Will Be Good

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Overview

Mallory Tater's This Will Be Good tells the story of a young woman's burgeoning femininity as it brushes up against an emerging eating disorder. As the difficulties of her disease reveal themselves, they ultimately disrupt family relationships and friendships.

These poems deftly bear witness to the performance of femininity and gender construction to reveal the shrinking mind and body of a girl trying to find her place in the world, and whose overflowing adolescent hope for a future will not subside.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781771663953
Publisher: Book*hug Press
Publication date: 03/10/2018
Sold by: INDEPENDENT PUB GROUP - EPUB - EBKS
Format: eBook
Pages: 96
File size: 793 KB

About the Author

MALLORY TATER is a writer from the traditional, unceded territories of the Algonquin Anishnaabeg Nation (Ottawa). Mallory's poetry and fiction have been published in literary magazines across Canada such as Room, CV2, The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, The New Quarterly, Carousel, Prism International and Arc Magazine. She was shortlisted for Arc Magazine's 2015 Poem of The Year Contest, The Malahat Review's 2016 Far Horizon's Contest and Room Magazine's 2016 Fiction and Poetry Prizes. She was the recipient of CV2's 2016 Young Buck Poetry Prize. She is the publisher of Rahila's Ghost Press, a poetry chapbook press.

Table of Contents

The Lessening

First Storm 11

Bedroom Crucifix 12

Sitter 13

Morning 14

Such Talented Girls 15

Early for the Fire 17

Witches 18

Good Fruit 19

All Things Wasting 20

Unbendable Light 22

New Girls Follow 23

In Such Humidity 28

Secret Washing 29

Gold Course 31

Insomnia in Two Parts 33

This Will Be Good 35

Sedona 36

Someday Scattered 38

The Losing

Fever 43

I Don't Know How to Be a Hungry Woman 44

Blue Tuesday 45

Sestina for the Losing 47

Houses 49

Ottawa General: Eating Disorder Ward 53

Period 55

Skeleton 56

Tidy the Guilt 57

What We No Longer Want 58

The Losses

My Mother's Father 61

Maternity Jacket 63

On the Train to Royal Columbian Hospital 64

Rahila Corches 65

Widower 66

That Childhood Street 67

Girl at the Ice Rink 69

Not Yet in Season 70

Stop Bath 72

With Him in Secret 73

Loss is Loss 74

What Was Worse 75

Bad Wool 76

Copper Intrauterine Device 77

Hannah's Party I 79

Hannah's Party II 80

L'Éclipse Totale du Coeur 82

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