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Life of the Party

If A Girl Screams, and Other Poems

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Life of the Party

By: Olivia Gatwood
Narrated by: Olivia Gatwood
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A dazzling collection of raw and explosive poems from a thrilling new feminist voice.


In this multi-faceted collection of odes, anecdotes, sonnets and prose, Olivia Gatwood weaves together the trials and triumphs of growing up and explores the many ways that fear and violence can be internalized in a woman's psyche. At times blistering and riotous, at times soulful and exuberant, Life of the Party is about what it means to be a girl and a woman in today’s world and the challenge of briefly being both.

In powerful, piercingly candid language, Gatwood asks: How does one grow from a girl to a woman in a world wracked by violence? What happens to our bodies that make us who we are? Is this fear really irrational?

Poetry Racism & Discrimination Social Sciences United States World Literature Discrimination
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Olivia Gatwood is an amazing poet. Beautiful, heart breaking poems. Absolutely everyone should read/ listen to these poems. everyone.

Incredible.

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