Girl after Girl after Girl: Poems

Girl after Girl after Girl explores mothers, daughters, and objects from frozen charlotte dolls to cocktails to mad money given by a mother to a daughter and hidden in a wallet. Nicole Cooley’s elegant verses explore the ways collection shapes female identity and the ways in which objects function as elegies. Nineteenth century mourning dresses, Shirley Temples, cakes soaked in whiskey, and Baby Tender Love dolls all describe and circumscribe female identity as the speaker's daughters move from infancy into their teen years.