<p>In her second collection Shanna Compton leads readers on a lightly satirical tour through various works of advice for young women including antique etiquette manuals pseudoscientific physiology textbooks 19th-century sermons contemporary newspaper clippings and Internet chatter. Counseling girls on everything from fashion to family the multiple personae in FOR GIRLS &amp; OTHER POEMS&nbsp;clamor to convey their contradictory (and often ridiculous) wisdom as their polyvocal cacophony pitches toward hysterical heights.&nbsp;</p>