Gunjan Pant Pande … Her Body & Other Parties: Carmen Maria Machado In this feminist collection there’s this: Then the hazy buzz of summer saunters in, and the air screeches and hums. Cicada-killing wasps catch the weakest and stab them motionless, hauling the weight of their bodies and their glass wings up and up and somewhere else. Fireflies drunkenly dazzle the dark… (P-54) And this too: I have breasts that heave out of my dresses in a way that seems innocent and perverted at the same time, I am a good girl, from a good family. (P-3) No surprise then...
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