Isabelle Correa's Good Girl and Other Yearnings turns the confessional genre on its head: a kaleidoscope of girlhood, longing, and truth.
"No one likes a mirror when they expected a window." As trauma shakes the roots of our very identities, Correa explores how healing happens on every level: atomic, corporeal, corporate, and cosmic. Raw and lyrical, these poems are an evocative reclamation of self. When existential dread is throwing punches, Correa dares to bet boldly on existential hope.
[A poem] is safe
like an ambulance
is safe.
You being
inside
means
you’re already hurt.