In Refusal , her searing new collection of poetry, Jenny Molberg draws on elements of the uncanny--invented hospitals, the Demogorgon of Dungeons & Dragons, an Ophelia character who refuses suicide--to investigate trauma, addiction, and forces of oppression.
Refusal seeks to break silences and to interrogate a cultural misogyny that weighs heavily on a woman\'s position in the world.--Kathryn Nuernberger, author of Rue.
A sequence of epistolary Poems looks to friendship as a safe haven from violent romantic relationships, while another series on a mother\'s struggle with addiction captures the complicated nature of a parent-child relationship affected by alcoholism.
As Molberg writes in Loving Ophelia Is, love and hate simultaneously is the trick of abuse / and the trick of abuse is a vexation of the mind.
Exposing the effects of widespread toxic misogyny, this confrontational volume examines societal, cultural, and personal gaslighting in situations of domestic abuse.
In Refusal , her searing new collection of poetry, Jenny Molberg draws on elements of the uncanny--invented hospitals, the Demogorgon of Dungeons & Dragons, an Ophelia character who refuses suicide--to investigate trauma, addiction, and forces of oppression
