What You Wish For

Bardon, Ruth

ISBN 13: 9798888381519

Published by Finishing Line Press, 2023

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: What You Wish For
• Publisher: Finishing Line Press
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798888381519
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

In What You Wish For, Ruth Bardon uses a feminist lens to take a fresh look at wishes, witches, magic spells, princesses, sleeping beauties, and 21st century queen bees. Her poems are sympathetic both to hopeful, yearning heroines and to equally hopeful, yearning villains and minor characters. At the same time, they are darkly pessimistic about the possibility of happy endings. With subtlety and humor, these quiet poems radically deconstruct familiar stories.

About the Author

Ruth Bardon grew up in Highland Park, New Jersey, and lived in a number of midwestern cities before firmly settling in Durham, North Carolina. She received an MFA degree from the Iowa Writers Workshop in 1982 and a PhD in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1995. Her poems have appeared in journals including Boulevard, The Cincinnati Review, New Ohio Review, Salamander, Moon City Review, and The Chattahoochee Review, and her first chapbook, Demon Barber, was published by Main Street Rag in 2020. She is also the author of Selected Short Stories of William Dean Howells (Ohio University Press, 1997).