Bianca Leigh Eugenia
Bianca Leigh Eugenia "I thought I forgave you," Eugenia Leigh tells the specter of her father in Bianca. As she "choose[s] to be tender to [her] child--a choice / [her] mangled brain makes each day,"…
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Bianca Leigh Eugenia
"I thought I forgave you," Eugenia Leigh tells the specter of her father in Bianca. As she "choose[s] to be tender to [her] child--a choice / [her] mangled brain makes each day," memories arise, asking the mother in her to tend, also, to the girl she once was. "Then I took root and became / someone's mother." Leigh's gripping second collection introduces us to a woman managing marriage, motherhood, and mental illness as her childhood abuse resurfaces in the light of "this honeyed life." Leigh strives to reconcile the disconnect between her past and her present as she confronts the inherited violence mired in the body's history.
My fever, my havoc, my tilt." These poems recover and reconsider Leigh's girlhood and young adulthood with the added context of PTSD and Bipolar Thus, we meet her manic alter ego, whose history becomes the gospel of Bianca: "We all called her Bianca.