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Buffalo Girl

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Buffalo Girl by Jessica Q. Stark offers a poetic exploration of the human connection to nature, weaving personal narratives with observations of the natural world. The book delves into themes of identity, belonging, and the intricate interplay between humans and their environments. Through its vivid and evocative imagery, it invites readers to reflect on their own relationships with nature.
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Buffalo Girl

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In these hybrid poems, Jessica Q. Stark explores her mother's fraught immigration to the United States from Vietnam at the end of the war through the lens of the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale.

Told through personal, national, and cultural histories, Buffalo Girl juxtaposes the moral implications of Little Red Riding Hood with her mother's photography. Stark creates an image-text conversation that attends to the wolves lurking in the forests of our everyday lives.

Opening the whispered frames around sexuality and sex work, immersed in the unflattering symptoms of survival, Buffalo Girl burgeons with matrilineal love and corporeal rage while censuring the white gaze and the violence enacted through the English language. Here is an inversion of diasporic victimhood. Here is an unwavering attention to the burdens suffered by the women of this world. Here is a reimagination, a reclamation, a way out of the woods.

Series: American Poets Continuum Series

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781950774883

Publisher: BOA Editions, Limited

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 June 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: BOA Editions, Limited

Illustration: Interspersed throughout are a series of collaged photos feat. Stark's mother's photog. from Vietnam.

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 177.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 136

About the Author

Jessica Q. Stark is the author of two full-length poetry manuscripts as well as four poetry chapbooks, including her most recentRENDER (2022). Stark's first poetry manuscript,The Liminal Parade, was selected by Dorothea Lasky for the Double Take Grand Prize in 2016 and her full length poetry collection titled, Savage Pageantwas named one of the "Best Books of 2020" inTheBoston Globeand inHyperallergic. Her poetry has most recently appeared or is forthcoming inBest American Poetry,Poetry Society of America,Pleiades,Carolina Quarterly,Poetry Daily,The Southeast Review,Verse Daily,and Tupelo Quarterly. Stark is a California-native, mixed race Vietnamese American poet, editor, and educator that lives in Jacksonville, Florida. She holds a BA from UC Berkeley and dual MA Degrees in English Literature and Cultural Studies from Saint Louis University's Madrid Campus. She received her PhD in English from Duke University. She currently serves as a Poetry Editor forAGNIand the Hybrid Editor forHoney Literary.

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