Refusal: Poems by Jenny Molberg

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Refusal: Poems

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Refusal: Poems

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 In Refusal, her searing new collection of poetry, Jenny Molberg draws on elements of the uncanny--invented hospitals, the Demogorgon of Dungeons & Dragons, an Ophelia character who refuses suicide--to investigate trauma, addiction, and forces of oppression. Exposing the effects of widespread toxic misogyny, this confrontational volume examines societal, cultural, and personal gaslighting in situations of domestic abuse. As Molberg writes in "Loving Ophelia Is," "love and hate simultaneously is the trick of abuse / and the trick of abuse is a vexation of the mind." A sequence of epistolary poems looks to friendship as a safe haven from violent romantic relationships, while another series on a mother's struggle with addiction captures the complicated nature of a parent-child relationship affected by alcoholism. Refusal seeks to break silences and to interrogate a cultural misogyny that weighs heavily on a woman's position in the world.
Book Details
Publisher:
LSU Press
ISBN:
9780807170748
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
86
Authors:
Jenny Molberg
Published Date:
2020-02-12
Language:
English
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About Jenny Molberg

A poet from Texas, Jenny Molberg earned her BA at Louisiana State University, her MFA at American University, and her PhD at the University of North Texas. Her debut collection, Marvels of the Invisible (Tupelo Press, 2017), won the Tupelo Press Berkshire Prize. She followed it with Refusal (LSU Press, 2020) and The Court of No Record (LSU Press, 2023), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her poems and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, and The Kenyon Review. She is a professor at Emerson College, where she serves as editor-in-chief of Ploughshares.

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