Double Jinx - by Nancy Reddy (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Double Jinx</i> follows the multiple transformations -- both figurative and literal -- that accompany adolescence and adulthood, particularly for young women. Drawing inspiration from sources as varied as Ovid's <i>Metamorphoses</i>, the rewritten fairy tales in Anne Sexton's <i>Transformations</i>, and the wild and shifting dreamscapes of Brigit Pegeen Kelly's work, these poems track speakers attempting to construct identity. <p/>A series of poems depict the character of Nancy Drew as she delves into an obsession with a doppelgänger. Cinderella wakes up to a pumpkin and a tattered dress after her prince grows tired of her. A young girl obsessed with fairy tales becomes fascinated with a copy of <i>Grey's Anatomy</i> in which she finds a "pink girl pinned to the page as if in vivisection. Could she / be pink inside like that? No decent girl / would go around the world like that, uncooked." <p/>The collection culminates in an understanding of the ways we construct our selves, whether it be by way of imitation, performance, and/or transformation. And it looks forward as well, for in coming to understand our identities as essentially malleable, we are liberated. Or as the author writes, "we'll be our own gods now."<br><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Praise for <i>Double Jinx</i>: <p/><i>Double Jinx</i> swirls luminously through genealogy, the dark gifts of a mother and absent father, a grandmother "who wrapped the boys in rugs and propped them up / before the fire," Little Red Riding Hood, Nancy Drew, Lucy the missing link, or the servitude that here comes with being "the girl you love / and not the runner-up" in "Miss Small Town USA," who, after it is returned from the cleaners, hangs up her body "with the winter coats, between the fox fur & the camel hair." <i>Double Jinx</i> is a brilliant first book, profound and fierce." -- Alex Lemon, author of <i>The Wish Book</i> <p/>With enormous imaginative energy, <i>Double Jinx</i> offers "a chorus of girls," from daughter to sister to wife, from Nancy Drew to the girls in fairy tales, to a beauty queen, to a girl who lives in a terrarium. This is an exhilarating, beautiful book. -- Nicole Cooley, author of <i>Breach</i> <p/>Reddy is the most deft of magicians. She'll "have your heart," and, "before the curtain falls," she'll "pluck it from your chest/ like a rabbit from a hat." -- Sara Eliza Johnson, author of <i>Bone Map</i> <p/>Nancy Reddy's exquisitely crafted poems perform an exploration of woman's manifold selves. Using the conceit of the stage, intimate spaces--family, home, the love letter--are lit 'bright as a spotlight' by the poet's eye, compelling us to examine questions of self-identity, desire, and escape. <i>Double Jinx</i> is a book that holds its audience spellbound. -- Rebecca Dunham, author of <i>Glass Armonica</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Nancy Reddy's</b> poems have been published in <i>32 Poems</i>, <i>Tupelo Quarterly</i>, and <i>Best New Poets</i> of 2011 (selected by D.A. Powell), with poems forthcoming in <i>Post Road</i> and <i>New Poetry from the Midwest</i>. She holds an M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin, where she is currently a doctoral candidate in composition and rhetoric. She lives in Madison, WI.<br>
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