Wasp Queen by Claudia Cortese (Black Lawrence Press, 2017)
Lucy—Cortese’s recurring character, our “wasp queen”—permeates this collection with stingers and Barbie heads, gauze, shopping malls, cul-de-sacs, wisteria, Ohio, Oreos and Ring Pops, Rainbow Brite, mirrors, fire, swear words, period blood, milk teeth, “the popular girls,” dirt, chicken fingers, Cheetos, lawn elves, masturbation, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Dirty Dancing, ribbons, rot, and milkshakes. Through these repeated images, Cortese invites us fully into Lucy’s world, wants us to be her friend, to make pinky-promises and eat a caterpillar with her.
The poem titles immediately engage and set up Lucy’s escapades in Midwestern suburbia—with titles such as “What Lucy’s World Looks Like,” “Lucy Selfie,” “What Lucy’s World Smells Like,” “What The Girls Named Lucy/ What Lucy Named The Girls,” “Lucy tilts the mirror of the CoverGirl compact between her legs.” The cover image of a slit filled with swarming wasps implies a vagina, a peek inside Lucy’s world of girlhood, viscera, aliveness.
De familie van Terrida toonde zich tevreden met de genomen maatregelen. “Het zal onze zoon zeker niet terugbrengen, maar misschien https://apotheekeen.com/product/tadalafil houdt het andere jongeren veilig”, zei Marianne Terrida, de moeder van de overleden patiënt, tegen de krant Jullandsposten. – Het is immers al lang bekend dat dergelijke medicijnen gevaarlijk zijn.