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In Fanfiction Is for Teenage Girls Anne of Green Gables goes on a girl-lit murder spree, Scheherazade confesses her love for Esther, and the narrator picks flowers from A Child’s Garden of Verses for her bouquet. We often characterize girlhood in terms of a sort of mute romanticism that names that mystifies the mundane and domestic. Shute’s poems flip this restrictive model on its head. Girlhood is about imagination with no holds: Shute muses that the Hunger Games “doesn’t work in a gymnasium [ because] it’s better as an outdoor game” and “It’s surprisingly easy to escape minotaurs. They’re great with mazes, but have no concept of doors.” In one poem, the two towers are set up in reference to 9/11, before being intentionally conflated with the ones from the Lord of The Rings. In this way, the collection encourages us to see the possibility in everything. Chock full of wordplay, wit, and Shute’s trademark love of linguistics, Fanfiction Is for Teenage Girls is a rollicky ride through poems more cutthroat than coquette, less girl dinner than girl feast, and as dreamlike as any teenager could imagine.

—Willow Loveday Little

Kirsten Shute lives in an airplane-ridden midsection of Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Her latest schooling was a BA in linguistics from Concordia University. Poetry of hers has appeared in the journal Soliloquies, several Twigs & Leaves anthologies, and the chapbook Songs of Irrelevance. You can find her words and pictures on Instagram at @kirsten_shute_writing and @kirsten_bead_batik. She is currently working on her first novel.

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