We Are Mermaids: Poems PG_Gift_Guide and unexpected heart

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When the relationship turns sour

someone had sliced the tent open with a knife and taken Billy

otherwise empowered women tolerate egregious behavior from the men they love

a small group trapped by the flames must find another way out—or die—in Playing with Fire

We Are Mermaids: Poems PG_Gift_Guide and unexpected heartEffusive new poems by Stephanie Burt, perhaps our greatest poet of having yet more to say (Boston Review) Stephanie Burts poems in We Are Mermaids are never just one thing. Instead, they revel in their multiplicity, their interconnectedness, their secret powers to become much more than they at first seem. In these poems, punctuation marks make arguments for their utility and their rights to exist. Frozen isnt simply another Disney animated musical but