Doll Apollo

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Title: Doll Apollo

Author: Melissa Ginsburg

Publisher: LSU Press

Release Date: 8.3.22

Publisher’s Summary 

With lush imagery and surprising syntactical turns, the poems in Doll Apollo merge 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 Ginsburg’s feminist ecopoetics weaves the domestic and celestial into considerations of female identity, desire, spiritual yearning, and doubt. Throughout, Doll Apollo remains rooted in scenery and music, as Ginsburg embraces her subjects with humor and verbal and formal play.

My Review

I enjoyed this collection, especially

Song of the Shred
The ink bled through and I easy tore.
How it goes,
Your ugliest mistake was done, you to yourself,
Your weakness on display
Rends the heart of the stain.