The Dagger Between Her Teeth
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550225112
- Publish Date
- Apr 2002
- List Price
- $15.95
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Powerful and compelling, this collection of poetry confronts notions of violence, both physical and emotional, by focusing on a woman's strength of will and capacity for ferocity. In it, the poet resurrects and reinvents the dramatic young lives of two 18th-century corsairs, Anne Bonny and Mary Read. Alive with the golden age of piracy but infused with the pulse of now, these poems provoke with theatrical plundering, creative cross-dressing, and vicious vengeance.
About the author
Jennifer LoveGrove is the author of the Giller Prize–longlisted novel Watch How We Walk, as well as two poetry collections: I Should Never Have Fired the Sentinel and The Dagger Between Her Teeth. In 2010, LoveGrove was nominated for the K.M. Hunter Artist Award for Literature and in 2015, her poetry was shortlisted for the Lit POP Awards. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications across North America. She divides her time between downtown Toronto and rural Ontario.