The Traditional Feel of the Ballroom

<p>In this collection of poems Hannah Gamble plucks the girl from both the men and the unnecessary fluff to show the gut-wrenching reality of being a woman around men. In clipped language she exposes the raw truth of being briefly trapped inside of a bar doorway and pretending to be okay with that. </p><p>This collection doesn't sugarcoat. Instead it cakes the reader in the dirt of men's hands-hands that may cup a woman's chin in deception or force a woman's hips to theirs. With Gamble's explicitly honest language the audience (all the while trying to shake the filth) will be unable to stop reading finding at the core of <em>The Traditional Feel of the Ballroom</em> a woman's unshakable determination when she's had enough.</p>