Hard Bargain - 9781957755540

"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, tosafeguard care and pleasure, and to counter the ordinary misogyny in politics and culture, theworkplace and the world of art. Narrators in this book-from Daphne to Dora, and from Callas toLeda-upend received ideas about the value of women's lives and loves, the nature of theirrights and reckonings.

• | Author: Heather Treseler
• | Publisher: Lily Poetry Review
• | Publication Date: Mar 01, 2025
• | Number of Pages: 00048 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1957755547
• | ISBN-13: 9781957755540