Wedding Underwear for Mermaids

Linda Ann Strang's first poetry collection skilfully entwinesfairy tales, womanhood, African culture, and the female psyche.The warrior mother, the spurned lover, the maltreated bride: they are all here, expertly drawn in lush original languagethat you'll want to wallow in from beginning to end.Unflinching and intuitive, Strang's forty-two poems paint animage of womanhood and femininity that is at once insightful, witty, dark, intimate, and utterly human."If poets would have us fall for them, this is a poet to fall for."Alan Botsford