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What Flies Want : Poems /

"In What Flies Want, disaster looms in domesticity: a family grapples with its members' mental health, a marriage falters, and a child experiments with self-harm. With its backdrop of school lockdown drills, #MeToo, and increasing political polarization, the collection asks how these priva...

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Autor principal: Perez, Emily (Poet) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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