The Girl Who Became a Rabbit

<p><strong><em>The Girl Who Became a Rabbit</em>, 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. </strong></p> <p>Examining reclaimed narratives of embodiment, gentle hauntings, and fables of the body, Emilie Menzel approaches the body as a home we consciously build, spinning myths and fairytales as ways to rewrite the body’s history. </p> <p>In the spirit of Maggie Nelson and Max Porter, Menzel’s writing is wild, lush, recursive, and intentionally messy. A mesmerizing and unique debut, <em>The Girl Who Became a Rabbit</em> intersects fable and trauma, femininity and creatureliness, and imagines the transformation of the body, perhaps, into language.</p>