Saint Dymphna's Playbook

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In lyrical prose that embodies the fragmented form </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Saint Dymphna's Playbook</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> mixes with hybrid verse poetry and lyrical essay detailing a ferocious and unapologetic viewpoint of how a woman's body is seen and governed in a world determined to control and dominate. Themes of suicide sexual assault and the male gaze-even in the professional world of being a private investigator a child a mother a lover-each piece pulling from experiences hard to confront. In this playbook of survival Leftwich allows the reader to bear witness handing the reader a gift of vulnerability and what it means to be alive in a society where women vanish in more ways than one. </span></p>