Girl in a Forest

<p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Elline Lipkin's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Girl in a Forest</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> explores the roles and tropes of women at different life stages filtered through the lens of the Brothers Grimm tale of Hansel and Gretel. These poems lay a trail of breadcrumbs through permutations of grief as a mother realizes her mortality a girl awakens to possibility and an elder reckons with loss. Lipkin invites the reader to step into the enchanted the grip of night / a swarm of marble /feelings set / inside a storm and to question reinscribe and reverse the tensions of womanhood in both the fairy tale and contemporary life. </span></p>