For Your Own Good by Leah Horlick5/18/2023 ![]() At once unflinching and fragile FOR YOUR OWN GOOD is a collection with transformation at its heart. In this reflection on grief, silence and community, we follow the narrator's own journey as she explores what it is to survive, to change, to desire and to hope. Horlick’s sophomore collection is so vulnerable and accessible that I’m sure I’ve written the same poems in my own mind. But Horlick also draws from a legacy of feminist, Jewish and lesbian writers against violence: epigraphs from the works of Adrienne Rich and Minnie Bruce Pratt act as touchstones alongside references to contemporary writers, such as Daphne Gottlieb and Michelle Tea. ‘For Your Own Good’ by Leah Horlick Author: Vanesa Evers FebruFor Your Own Good is a testimony, a warning, a summoning of all female power to come forth and just be still. ![]() These poems are acutely painful, rooted in singular and firsthand experiences. There is magic in this work: the symbolism of the Tarot and the roots of Jewish heritage, but also the magic that is at the heart of transformation and survival. Zoe Whittall In the canon of contemporary feminist and lesbian poetry, For Your Own Good breaks silence. ![]() ![]() A fictionalized autobiography, the poems in this collection illustrate the narrator's survival of a domestic and sexual violence in a lesbian relationship. For Your Own Good is a startling combination of the two, skillful poems both defiant and self-aware, and close to my femme heart. In the canon of contemporary feminist and lesbian poetry, FOR YOUR OWN GOOD breaks silence. ![]()
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