Winner of the 2021 Wicked Woman prize for poems that focus on a woman who somehow broke the mold. In this memoir, the speaker of the poems sees herself as such a Wicked Woman in that she defied numerous conventions, suffered, survived, and. . .was able to laugh. Readers will hope there is a bit of themselves in this tough, tender woman and poet. Lori Jakiela writes write confessional poems that are equal parts ruminative and humorous... all while sustaining a gorgeous lyricism.