Avoiding the Rapture Weyant Karen J.
Avoiding the Rapture is a collection of poems about survival-surviving childhood, religion, and the ways girls are taught they should behave. Karen J. Weyant opens the Rust Belt to the reader and…
Specifikacia Avoiding the Rapture Weyant Karen J.
Avoiding the Rapture is a collection of poems about survival-surviving childhood, religion, and the ways girls are taught they should behave. Karen J. Weyant opens the Rust Belt to the reader and shows them what life is like there: hard and grizzly, but with hints of tenderness and hope. We meet troubled boys and adventurous girls, we meet the survivors of a difficult life, we meet those who are scraping by and those who aren't. This collection shows that even the difficult can be beautiful, that even the hard can contain softness. Ultimately, this collection shows the reader that to survive, one must be willing to fight for it, but if they do, they're rewarded with a lush and vibrant life. ** Karen J. Weyant dedicates Avoiding the Rapture, "to all the Rust Belt girls" who did as the title suggests: survived looming fear of physical bodies of