GlOrious
Handler writes the full orchestral score of what is female.
Laid forth in six sections, the poems speak of the transmigration of a woman–from an emotionally stifled girlhood through the first tentative steps of self-discovery to, finally, the apostasy of womanhood and the ecstasy that everyday rebellion can bring. Combining the confessional candor of a Robert Lowell with the ecstatic modernist of a Allen Ginsberg or Charles Bukowski, Joan Cusack Handler has fashioned a unique voice as a poet.
Afaa Michael Weaver, Poet & Prose writer
Reviews
The use of space and the floating words that sometimes become rushed waterfalls of intensity is the work's strength. Handler writes emotinally charged confessional poetry, and some poems have lines that are powerhouses and make you stop in the middle of a long momentum-building poem. Her themes around coming of age, religious ambiguity coupled with a deep faith, and the nature of being a connected person, and often woman specifically, are challenging to take up and present well.
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