Reader, I

<b>A brand new collection from multi-award winning poet Corey Van Landingham. </b><p><br></p><p><i>Reader, I</i> draws its title from the conclusion to Charlotte Brontë’s <i>Jane Eyre</i>: “Reader, I married him.” Spanning the first years of a marriage, the speaker in <i>Reader, I </i>both courts and eschews nuptial myths, as its speaker—tender and callous, skeptical and hopeful, daughter and lover—finds a role for herself in marriage, in history, in something beyond the self. While these poems burn with a Plathian fire, they also address and invite in a reader who is, as in <i>Jane Eyre</i>, a confidant. Steeped in a world of husbands and fathers, patriarchal nations and power structures, <i>Reader, I</i> traverses bowling alleys and hospital rooms, ancient Troy and public swimming pools, to envision domestic life as a metaphor for civic life, and vice versa.</p>