Description
A debut full-length poetry collection from Sarah Lyn Rogers rewriting girlhood and summoning mischief
Sarah Lyn Rogers's debut full-length collection is a tragicomic exploration of codependent and transactional relationships: economies of shame, gifts as debts, businesses run like families, and families run like businesses. What transgressions and abuses do we believe are acceptable fees for safety or love, and who upholds these myths? The poems in Cosmic Tantrum examine how our most intimate relationships shape the way we move through the wider world--and what happens when we reject the stories we've inherited about our worth.
Product Details
| Publisher | Curbstone Press |
| Publish Date | February 15, 2025 |
| Pages | 104 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780810147935 |
| Dimensions | 8.9 X 5.9 X 0.6 inches | 0.3 pounds |
About the Author
SARAH LYN ROGERS is the author of the chapbooks Autocorrect Suggests "Tithe" and Inevitable What. She wrote the Catapult column Internet as Intimacy and has edited award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Reviews
Named a most anticipated debut of 2025 by Electric Literature and Debutiful
"[A] virtuosic riot of a collection. Sarah Lyn Rogers invokes pop culture symbols from Charlie Brown to "Little Edie" Beale to Natalie Wood, from tarot cards to guided meditations, as she rages against society's inherited myths. Defying the limits of form and language itself, Rogers asserts a shining new poetics of self-creation." --Electric Literature
"[Rogers] explores what girlhood means and how society treats young women with a brilliant eye." --Debutiful
"William Blake taught us that nothing could be scarier than fairy tales for grown-ups. T.S. Eliot taught us that selfhood inheres in the desire for self-erasure. Somewhere in the wild space between these guiding poetics, Sarah Lyn Rogers's Cosmic Tantrum lays a table for tea."--Rachel Feder, coauthor of Astrolit: A Bibliophile's Guide to the Stars
"Too much of this world's currency / is shame," writes Sarah Lyn Rogers, in Cosmic Tantrum, which frees childhood of its innocence to indict the false motives of conditional love. Flipping the language of business, fairy tale, and dissolution, Rogers rewrites girlhood to offer a refuge from domesticity. Shifting form and address to reason with Kafka, Charlie Brown, Little Edie in Grey Gardens, and the ghosts that haunt survival, Cosmic Tantrum summons mischief to banish harm." --Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author of Touching the Art
"It seems incredible--nay, impossible--that so many great poems could reside in a single collection, but, reader, it is credible and it is possible, because this is a book by Sarah Lyn Rogers. I read each page with absolute greed, astonished by this jewel-like horde of gorgeous ironies and hard-won information about things hidden since the start of the world." --Lucy Ives, author of An Image of My Name Enters America
"As its title suggests, Sarah Lyn Rogers's Cosmic Tantrum brilliantly confronts society's infantilization of women by pulling an Uno reverse. What happens when society gets the "good girl" that it asks for? These poems rage during meditations, they defy in corporate emails, they turn their brattiness up so loud that we all turn to watch their meltdowns. But in our watching, we are forced to reckon with our own discomfort with Rogers's "outsized" anger. This book reminds us that a tantrum is often a result of our own inattention and neglect. How do we soothe the monster we've created?"--Taylor Byas, author of I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times
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