Reader, I

By Corey Van Landingham

A brand new collection from multi-award winning poet Corey Van Landingham.

Reader, I draws its title from the conclusion to Charlotte Bront 's Jane Eyre: "Reader, I married him." Spanning the first years of a marriage, the speaker in Reader, I both courts and eschews nuptial myths, as its speaker--tender and callous, skeptical and hopeful, daughter and lover--finds a role for herself in marriage, in history, in something beyond the self. While these poems burn with a Plathian fire, they also address and invite in a reader who is, as in Jane Eyre, a confidant. Steeped in a world of husbands and fathers, patriarchal nations and power structures, Reader, I traverses bowling alleys and hospital rooms, ancient Troy and public swimming pools, to envision domestic life as a metaphor for civic life, and vice versa.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1956046259
• ISBN13: 9781956046250
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Sarabande Books
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.8"