Morality Play

In Morality Play, Lauren Hilger forges a restless path between the impressionable folly of youth and the boundlessness of individual becoming. A motley bildungsroman of fierce imagination, Morality Play reveals, and revels in, the paradox inherent in its title, angling for a tender virtue in the sensuousness of words. "Raised on a fast pencil, a sound expiring," Hilger reminds us that "From the world's first cities, it was always a woman / telling the future." Like a wild song fluent in, or flung against, awkward self-delusion and constrictive cultural norms, Morality Play offers a vision of womanhood as expansive as lucid dreaming, where all the "wrong words" become our "mother tongue."

Author: Lauren Hilger
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Poetry Northwest Editions
Published: 06/25/2022
Series: Possession Sound Reading #2
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d
ISBN: 9781949166057