women and monstrosity
As I was editing the final version of the upcoming collection of poems and thinking about what holds the book together as a whole, it brought to mind how often the women are becoming something else, either physically or mentally. Sometimes its magical, but sometimes its monstrous. Sometimes it's a little of both. The book lives in somewhat twisted versions of matrimony and domesticity, but also in some ways, the idea of transformation and monstrosity, which is a place I have visited before obviously with previous books and series, but seems important to take into account with this manuscript in particular. Early American vampires. Murdering governesses. Swampy winged women, and, of course, Bluebeard and his wife (and hidden room full of corpses of brides.) Not that I haven't written about monstrous women before, though they are usually less malicious. The Renaissance dog-girl of PELT, the sideshow women of GIRL SHOW and EXOTICA. The strangeness of the SWALLOW poems and the fema...
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