What You Wish For

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>What You Wish For</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ruth Bardon</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> uses a feminist lens to take a fresh look at wishes witches magic spells princesses sleeping beauties and 21st century queen bees. Her poems are sympathetic both to hopeful yearning heroines and to equally hopeful yearning villains and minor characters. At the same time they are darkly pessimistic about the possibility of happy endings. With subtlety and humor these quiet poems radically deconstruct familiar stories.</span></p>