Who Is Mary Sue? Collins SophiePaperback
Who Is Mary Sue? Collins SophiePaperback One of Bustle's 12 Most Anticipated Poetry Collections for 2018In the language of fan fiction, a "Mary Sue" is an idealized and implausibly flawless…
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Who Is Mary Sue? Collins SophiePaperback
One of Bustle's 12 Most Anticipated Poetry Collections for 2018In the language of fan fiction, a "Mary Sue" is an idealized and implausibly flawless character: a female archetype that can infuriate audiences for its perceived narcissism.Such is the setting for this brilliant and important debut by Sophie Collins. exposes the presumptive politics behind writing and readership: the idea that men invent while women reflect; that a man writes of the world outside while a woman will turn to the interior.Part poetry and part reportage, at once playful and sincere, these fictive-factive miniatures deploy original writing and extant quotation in a mode of pure invention. In a series of verse and prose collages, Who Is Mary Sue?
In so doing, they lift up and lay down a revealing sequence of masks and mirrors that disturb the reflection of authority.