Marys of the Sea
Valente, Joanna C. / Desilva-Johnson, Lynne
She is not dead, but sleeping, Jesus says in the Gospel of Luke, like the sick girl of that verse, the speakers of Joanna Valente's sharp and urgent ¿Marys of the Seä¿ toss and turn through a series of feverish nightmares that refract lived experiences into prophetic and wild new imaginings. Preoccupied with the consequences of mothering and not-mothering, these fifty-three poems trenchantly interrogate sexual violence and its aftermath, linge...