i am this girl
Bernard, Gina Marie
gina marie bernard's i am this girl is a triumph of truth and language, forging with fierce determination a no-punches pulled telling of a "tortured son" rising and "bleeding now as a daughter." From ashes, divination, and shattered glass, the self in this collection is summoned and examined with sincere scrutiny, in a land of tortured beauty where "[d]ecisions float on beds of glacial regret." This exploration is not for the faint of heart, a...