"It has been years since I have read a new poet of such rhetorical sophistication and mastery. Wow." --Frank BidartCruxes in women's lives are the subject of poems in Hard Bargain, including the risks that women take--and the bargains they drive--to achieve autonomy, to safeguard care and pleasure, and to counter misogyny in politics and culture, the workplace and the world of art. Narrators in this book, f ...Full description
"It has been years since I have read a new poet of such rhetorical sophistication and mastery. Wow." --Frank BidartCruxes in women's lives are the subject of poems in Hard Bargain, including the risks that women take--and the bargains they drive--to achieve autonomy, to safeguard care and pleasure, and to counter misogyny in politics and culture, the workplace and the world of art. Narrators in this book, from Daphne to Dora, and from Callas to Leda, upend received ideas about the value of women's lives and loves, the nature of their rights and reckonings.