The Lifting Dress

by Lauren Berry

Book Overview

Selected for the National Poetry Series by Terrance Hayes. Lauren Berry's bracing and emotionally charged first collection of poetry delivers visions of a gothic South that Flannery O'Connor would recognize. Set in a feverish swamp town in Florida, The Lifting Dress enters the life of a teenage girl the day after she has been raped. She refuses to tell anyone what has happened, and moves silently toward adulthood in a community that offers beauty...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143119656
• ISBN13: 9780143119654
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher