"Find the Girl is a book of poems as urgent as its title. . . . Here we have an important new poetic voice, one that fully earns Louis Zukofsky's o...
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Jul 10, 2011
Ben
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Lightsey Darst's debut book of poetry is a truly masterful creation. Be warned: it is not for the faint of heart. Darst lays bare the hypocrisy and self-deception of Western culture with regard to the coming of age of young women in richly symbolic but painfully blunt language.
What is most remarkable about Find the Girl is that neither the narrative development through the course of the book, nor the merciless social commentary, in any way interfere with Darst's execution of the craft More...
What is most remarkable about Find the Girl is that neither the narrative development through the course of the book, nor the merciless social commentary, in any way interfere with Darst's execution of the craft More...
Jan 06, 2011
Carol
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Girls, Girls, Girls. Girls as flowers, blooming into womanhood. Girls as fruits, ripening for consumption. Girls as precious artifacts, waiting impatiently underfoot for someone to discover them, to rescue them, even if it is only their remains that are rescued. Find the Girl, the debut book of poetry by Lightsey Darst, reminds us of our lost girls; the girl who ran away, forever disappearing with her red lips, swinging braids and lunchbox. Or the girl who was taken, snatched by a predator
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Jun 20, 2010
Farren
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The sexualization of women—and a girl’s desire to achieve power by becoming an object of sexual interest—is a prevalent sign of a seriously ill culture. In drawing the reader’s attention to this symptom in Find the Girl, a self described “expose of girlhood, obsession and the CSI industry,” one has to wonder what the aim is. Poems about the treacherous, seductive, terrifying coming-of-age years for a girl is one loosely-constructed narrative; the other parallel story is a narrating crime scene i
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Sep 17, 2010
Jesi
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At first I had trouble getting into this poetry collection but as I continued to read, I found myself understanding what Darst was trying to convey in each poen and the overall theme of the book. By that time, I was almost finished with the book. This book reminded me of Kimiko Hahn's The Artist's Daughter, which addresses similar topics, and an incredible poetry collection.
Jan 05, 2012
Abbi
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you think she won't lure you one day,
silent smile, ghost-thin arms / untouchable survivor:
she's been taught a new lesson
(from Highway)
And then you die and she
is running through midnight woods
(from Snow White)
That one--like you she'd be a runaway by now, gone plain, wire-scarred
and where she got away, a few evenly spaced holes.
[...]
The turnpike overpass where you've huddled / your life
an animal caught in More...
silent smile, ghost-thin arms / untouchable survivor:
she's been taught a new lesson
(from Highway)
And then you die and she
is running through midnight woods
(from Snow White)
That one--like you she'd be a runaway by now, gone plain, wire-scarred
and where she got away, a few evenly spaced holes.
[...]
The turnpike overpass where you've huddled / your life
an animal caught in More...
Sep 06, 2011
Gloriavirtutisumbra
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Just finished this. There were parts i liked, she has a keen ability to describe girly teenage adolescence, and occasionally she used a word that even as you read it you thought it was another word, which is an excellent trick as a poet. HOWEVER, as much as tales of murder mayhem rape and serial killing is popular today, i have to admit I just dont get it. The Jack the Ripper poem was excellent, so was the poem at the end on Helen of Troy. But man, would love to read her take on the everyday w
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Sep 06, 2010
Gsmattingly
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Very enjoyable book of poetry, a number of poems about the bodies of girls found out in the woods. Okay, definitely a bit unusual.
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