Girl Hurt by E.J. Miller-Laino

Joyce Peseroff recommends
Girl Hurt, a first book of poems by E. J. Miller-Laino: "
Girl Hurt records a woman's journey from the underworld of shame and hurt, where Mother cries 'like Frankenstein in the movie, / those deep, guttural half-words . . . / of monsters created with human hearts,' to the light of a recovered spirit. Miller-Laino's voice is vibrant and compelling in these intimate poems about family, work, and the hard road from silence into language." (Alice James)