In the second book of the Poems from the Attic poetry series, Alicia Bayer explores topics such as marriage, sexuality, sexual abuse and the labels we give women. Ever After it is twenty years later. snow white, as she is still known, is thirty-two. she sees the pleating of the skin around her eyes, the droop of his favorite breasts, the lumps beneath what was always firm. she sits in front of an old mirror, inherited from a woman once young. in the next kingdom, cinderella has cast off her slippers. her feet, ...
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In the second book of the Poems from the Attic poetry series, Alicia Bayer explores topics such as marriage, sexuality, sexual abuse and the labels we give women. Ever After it is twenty years later. snow white, as she is still known, is thirty-two. she sees the pleating of the skin around her eyes, the droop of his favorite breasts, the lumps beneath what was always firm. she sits in front of an old mirror, inherited from a woman once young. in the next kingdom, cinderella has cast off her slippers. her feet, swollen from pregnancies and winters, are constant reminders of what no longer fits. briar rose takes prozac but still cannot sleep without fear of who she'll wake up to, who she'll wake up as. the princes, with their little pot bellies are eying each other's daughters and the queens those nasty bitches just laugh and laugh. Alicia Bayer had published over a hundred poems and performed poetry readings in person and on local television before putting her poems away to "get her sh*t together," get a proper job, become a respected author and raise five children. Over twenty-five years later, she rescued her boxes of words and compiled them into a series of books in the Poems from the Attic series. The first book of the series, Crazy Broken Thing, explored issues of mental illness. The Minnesota State Arts Board helped fund this project.
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