Happy Pub Day to UNC Greensboro MFA Writing Program alum Stephanie Rogers! Fat Girl Forms launches today from Saturnalia Books.
“Stephanie Rogers has gifted us a majestically conceived collection—one I’ve been craving as both a reader and teacher of poetry. On a formal level, we are treated to an agile survey of traditions in meter, syllabics, and rhyme. On a thematic level, these poems stay faithful to a specific, fully realized protagonist as they examine society’s relentless critique of weight as a measure of worth. “Each day, I wake to ready / my body / to devour the sun’s heat,” the speaker of “Fat Girl Ovillejo” observes, “to eat / the thick and dripping light.” Shifts in perspective and focal distance keep the material fresh, prompting its audience to ask: why have we not had this conversation before? This fearless, formidable, and necessary book claims its essential moment.”
—Sandra Beasley
