What Hurts Going Down: Poems

by Nancy Lee

A searing exploration of girlhood in the pre- and post- #MeToo eras from the acclaimed novelist.

CBC Best Canadian Poetry of 2020

What keeps a kind girl alive in the wild? The men in town
are crapshoots, sawbucks, coins striking heads and tails.

Nancy Lee's searing collection of poems confronts how socially ingrained violence and sexual power dynamics distort and dislocate girlhood, womanhood,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 077104903X
• ISBN13: 9780771049033
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.7" x 8.4"