Product Description
What It Feels Like for a Girl is a book-length series of poems that tell the story of two teenage girls as they delve into the big, strange world of sex.
What It Feels Like for a Girl is about many things: the friendships girls have at the most intense times in their lives. Pornography and its “lessons” for the young woman who has never experienced sex in an unfiltered way. What sex and love have to do with each other—if anything. How confusing desire can be. How so many things in this world are two things at once—thirteen is both young and old, Madonna is both the virgin and the whore, pornography is both arousing and terrifying. How teenage girls (like pornography, literature, art) hold a mirror up to the world and show it its true beautiful, and ugly face.
The girls have the kind of friendship only teenage girls have—intense, raw, dependent, playful, and emotional. And beneath the friendship is an attraction for one another, which one girl perceives as love, and the other believes to be a benign crush—nothing of any substance.
About the Author
Jennica Harper was born in North Bay, Ontario and grew up in Brampton. She came to Vancouver in 2000 to earn her MFA in Creative Writing from UBC. Her long poem “Octopus” was shortlisted for a National Magazine Award, and her first collection of poetry, The Octopus and Other Poems, was published by Signature Editions in 2006. In 2007, her poem “Autumn Detail” was selected for the Poetry in Transit project. Jennica also works as a screen-writer, story editor, and instructor/writer at Vancouver Film School. She lives in the coolest building in Vancouver with her partner-in-all-things, Jeff.
