Girlhood by Julia Copus Picador As editor and publisher

As editor and publisher

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a sequence of mirror poems contemplating the Jewishness of the poet’s father

Girlhood by Julia Copus Picador As editor and publisherJulia Copus's new collection, Girlhood, is a book of transgressed boundaries and seductive veneers. Restlessly inquisitive, it exposes the shifting power balance between things on the verge of becoming and the forces that threaten to destroy them. Reading these poems, we have the sense of encountering a series of filmic installations arranged by episode in a gallery. Lost, censored or disparaged voices speak out from secluded spaces and moments of