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Bad Daughter explores misbehavior-its risky pleasures and often tragic consequences-through poems about bad daughters, sisters, and their mothers. What happens to the sister who obeys? What if a daughter refuses her inheritance? Can she? What sanctuary and what limits do worship and domesticity provide? Gorham adopts several lyric forms-'morality tales,' ironic prayers, scaled-down sonnets, sharp meditations on concepts such as envy, detachment, and immortality-to show that the self as forged by generations of women and girls is both subversive and enduring.

Bad Daughter

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    A Paperback by Sarah Gorham

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      Publisher Four Way Books
      Published 11 October 2011
      ISBN-13 9781935536161
      978-1935536161
      ISBN-10 1935536168

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      Book Synopsis
      Bad Daughter explores misbehavior-its risky pleasures and often tragic consequences-through poems about bad daughters, sisters, and their mothers. What happens to the sister who obeys? What if a daughter refuses her inheritance? Can she? What sanctuary and what limits do worship and domesticity provide? Gorham adopts several lyric forms-'morality tales,' ironic prayers, scaled-down sonnets, sharp meditations on concepts such as envy, detachment, and immortality-to show that the self as forged by generations of women and girls is both subversive and enduring.

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