Emilie Menzel

→The Girl Who Became a Rabbit is a book-length lyric, a dark, ruminative poem that pushes the limits of the prose-poetic form to explore how the body carries and shapes grief and what it means to tell a story. 

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"[I]n her tremendous, book-length lyric ... Menzel pushes the boundaries of what poetry and prose can be and how language creates meaning." —Booklist

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“[The Girl Who Became a Rabbit] is a reminder that amidst our grief, our light, our hybridity, we are constantly being formed anew. We are all of us trembling. How terrifying. How beautiful.” —The Rumpus

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“Every page is a masterclass in language. Reading this was an experience unlike any other.” —Debutiful

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"I couldn't put it down. And, when I finished, I was changed."—Molly McCully Brown, judge's citation

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​"Menzel is a marvelous writer and cataloguer of what connects and estranges us from our lives." —Kelly Link

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"A world that will inspire you to think playfully and with kindness and persistence and an openness to that which is not immediately beheld"

—Dara Barrois/Dixon, author of Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina

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​"Her lyric is the elixir I wish I could gift anyone who’s experienced girlhood."

 —Diana Khoi Nguyen, author of Root Fractures