Handler writes the full orchestral score of what is female.

Laid forth in six sections, the poems in GlOrious 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.