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Girl's Guide to Leaving

Laura Villareal

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Tumbleweeds and wandering cacti litter the page, coyotes croon at the prose. In poems haunted by specters of intimate partner violence, Girl's Guide to Leaving considers what it means to escape the love that trapped you and find a temporary home in the barely cooled ashes of a wildfire.

Book Details

  • Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
  • Publish Date: Apr 26th, 2022
  • Pages: 80
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.74in - 6.77in - 0.39in - 0.35lb
  • EAN: 9780299336844
  • Categories: • American - General

About the Author

Laura Villareal is a 2019-21 National Book Critics Circle Emerging Fellow, a 2020-21 Stadler Fellow, and the author of the chapbook The Cartography of Sleep. She works on an interview series at F(r)iction called "Writers Talking about Anything but Writing." Her work has appeared in AGNI, Grist, Black Warrior Review, Waxwing, and elsewhere.

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Laura Spence-Ash
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3 years

BEYOND THAT, THE SEA, out from @CeladonBooks, March 21, 2023 /// Fiction: @onestorymag, @NERWeb /// Critical essays/Reviews: @pshares

Happiest of pub days to @earthandstars! Her wonderful collection, GIRL’S GUIDE TO LEAVING, is out today from @UWiscPress!! 🎉🎉💕 https://t.co/znB8cfOSyr

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Laura Villareal
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🌺💜💙 | She/her | Girl's Guide to Leaving (University of Wisconsin Press April 2022)

So excited to share my contribution for @Poetry_Society's series In Their Own Words in which I talk about a poem from my book GIRL'S GUIDE TO LEAVING (@UWiscPress)! Special thanks to @monkeyrebellion for asking me to write about a poem.✨ https://t.co/CFvHXXV4Bw

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Emily Bludworth de Barrios
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SHOPPING OR THE END OF TIME (@uwiscpress), etc emilybludworthdebarrios@gmail.com

🌜TONIGHT 🌛 Virtual reading from my new book SHOPPING OR THE END OF TIME with a reading from ❤️ Laura Villareal ❤️ author of GIRL’S GUIDE TO LEAVING https://t.co/uOssLme3eI

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"A folklore troubadour, Villareal ably unfolds a path through memory. Running wild and running home, this guide isn't just for leaving but rather for making space in sites where one can 'witness local miracles' or to tell a heroine's story without remorse. This is a rangy and ambitious book."--Carmen Giménez Smith
"Formally diverse, this collection wants to "tell you all hearts find good homes eventually" while moving through contrapuntals, prose blocks, and open field poems that articulate anything but statis, that articulate that perhaps the place we will find the most comfort for our hearts is in the act of forward motion, in the act of leaving."--Chet'la Sebree
"Laura Villareal's full-length debut rests upon the slow healing of myth-making, the retrospective balming of injury to lore. Grief is guarded in secret like a torn photograph in your shirt pocket. Leaving--a ritual ripe with a yearning to outrun the predatory stride of memory. Every escape charts new cartographies--away from homes that shelve your "whole self away / in the garage or attic," smell of "Diesel cologne, brass & birdshot," and towards a body habitable by your tenderest of parts. Girl's Guide To Leaving moves through the curative wisdom of transit, unrestrained in its desire to flee and toss a lit match behind it."--Ana Portnoy Brimmer, author of To Love An Island
"Laura Villareal's future shines bright if her debut full-length collection, Girl's Guide to Leaving (University of Wisconsin Press), is anything to judge her by. Villareal's poems are full of longing and letting go of one's loves and expectations around relationships, family, and culture. She wraps the rich tapestry of her inherited Mexican folklore around each poem, reinventing the speaker, the story, and the land in the process."--Washington Independent Review of Books

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