Catechesis: A Postpastoral

by Lindsay Lusby

Winner of the 2018 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry

"A girl has two choices: / to be a tree or / to be the forest." Catechesis combines Grimm fairy tales with horror movies and the Book of Revelation to construct a vision of the dangers and apocalyptic transformations inherent in girlhood. This lyric lore, which includes curious diagrams and collages of the botanical and the anatomical, contains hidden instructions to prepare girls for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1607816970
• ISBN13: 9781607816973
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: University of Utah Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.4"