Nicole Markotic
1) Rough patch
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Entering her first year of high school, shy Keira and her boy-crazy BFF Sita start the year by making lists of the cutest boys. However, Keira's secret is that she finds herself attracted to girls, too, which she hides. When she meets a girl named Jayne, though, things come to a head, and she risks getting caught at the high school Halloween dance.
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Bent at the Spine offers a pronounced frolic where the "you" is a disconnected third party, the reader is left in the position of an eavesdropper, or a listener, or a karmasurplus author. Its relentless interrogation resonates at an invigorating pace: cultural difference, different bodies, diffident accents, deafening rhymes. Sometimes rapturous, often vulvy, the poems audaciously teach "you" how to read them, allowing the last-minute-cram-session...
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