Description

LSU Press, paperback

Publication Date: August 3, 2022

Publisher Marketing: With lush imagery and surprising syntactical turns, the poems inDoll Apollomerge mythology with close attention to the patterns, colors, and contours of the material world. Through the figure of the paper doll, the hoax conspiracy surrounding the Apollo moon landing, and lyrics embedded with violence and beauty, Melissa Ginsburgs feminist ecopoetics weaves the domestic and celestial into considerations of female identity, desire, spiritual yearning, and doubt. Throughout,Doll Apolloremains rooted in scenery and music, as Ginsburg embraces her subjects with humor and verbal and formal play.