Guided by the heart of a girl and written by the hand of an experienced poet, the lyrical meditations in Reading Like a Girl take us on a journey through a poet’s life, storied and mediated by the texts she reads. If there is a precipice at which language, especially its lyrical form, must hover, in order for one to feel dangerously alive and subsequently on the verge of death, then Toronto poet Rishma Dunlop takes us there, seducing us with a relentless passion for the intangible beauty wrought visible in “objects” cathected with reverence and desire.Ī Round, Full Moment: Review of Rishma Dunlop’s Reading Like a Girl Reviews and Praise for Reading Like a Girl An essential book from an uncompromising voice. From the childhood book that “thumbs her open” to the post-9/11 classroom in which she must somehow bring meaning to “rows of firemen’s boots abandoned,” Dunlop’s brilliant language explores what it means to learn and teach in an increasingly violent and fractured global landscape. In Reading Like a Girl, award-winning poet Rishma Dunlop blends the autobiographical with the imagined to produce an evocative collection of 21st-century poetry.
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