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really enjoyed this collection very much! It's full of visceral images and longing and confusion, The JackalopeGirl speaks to us mere humans on so many levels and so profoundly,

I will be reviewing this collection first for the SFPA's StarLine and then for Amazing Stories, hopefully including some recitations for you, JackalopeGirl Learns to Speak is a magical story in verse, Stacey Balkun reimagines myths and bible stories as she writes about halfanimals halfhumans, animal cities, birthmamas, adoption, and the dreams and desires that motivate us all.
"I'm toughter than I look" is a line that will stick with me, Jackalopegirl is fully formed in the first pages of this collection, with a tiny mouth, large ears, and teeth that refuse to remain in their place.
Magical, gutpunching, familial myth braided with a powerful assertion of the self, JackalopeGirl Learns to Speak is domestic fabulism, a branch of magical realism, at its sharpestweaving together the heartstrings in gorgeously tight lyrics of a birthmother amp the daughter she placed for adoption.
The fairy tale structure asks readers to reevaluate, to examine deeply, whatever we think we understand about family ties, Balkun's poems captivate completely. This is a wonderfully fabulist chapbook full of surreal imagery I haven't read anything like it! In the first poem Balkun imagines the title character born into a suburban family during an ice storm: "It was unusual/the cold front, the leporid wind scream.
/Nurses worried in the maternity ward, . . " Balkun continues: "If the patients looked up, they would have seen/the last photographs of the newdead flicker/across the screen with captions like tragic.
. . / Nobody knew/ to blame the jackalopegirl, newborn and hungry,/ears still unfurling, nesting in a stranger's arms" "Myth", The rest of the book examines this premise in all its strangeness, with Balkun spinning a wondertale about JackalopeGirl with poems that tell of her lost birthsisters, how she learns to speak, her first time, her first tattoo.
But the real wonder of the collection is the extended metaphor Balkun builds, simultaneously, about alienation, adoption, and those who feel like transplants in their own families.
Highly recommended! JackalopeGirl Learns to Speak is a chapbook of poems that use domestic fabulism to tell a story of adoption, Fabulist elements are placed right in the familiar world: JackalopeGirla girl with antlers, whiskers, and rabbit earsis born, meets boys, deals with her obvious weirdness, deals with her adoptive fathers illness, and learns about her adoption.
The theme central to many of these poems is loss, Some poems speak from the voice of JackalopeGirls imagined birthmotherAntlerGirl, Using a wide range of

styles, JackalopeGirl Learns to Speak chronicles a comingofage story using imaginative imagery and metaphor, Nominated for an Elgin Award, this collection of poems tells a storya story I could have kept following, Perhaps there will be a sequel, Balkun uses her character, a mythical hybrid of her own creation, to tap into the universal feelings of any outsider,

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