With A Walk in Victoria's Secret, Kate Daniels crafts a bold, brassy, yet delicate vision of a woman's growth. Imbued with a unique poetic voice that is utterly feminist, these poems possess a fiery intensity for those abuses no woman can ever quite recover from, but also reveal the loving, forgiving temperament of the mother no woman can do without. From the title poem's unapologetic celebration of the breast to a belated apology to the girl who integrated her elementary school, to the awkward juxtaposition of elderly and young women in a gynecologist's office on September 11, 2001, Daniels provides a rich array of meditations on what it means to be a woman in our time. Buoyant and entertaining, singular in style, and exuberant in language, A Walk in Victoria's Secret offers an intimate look at women's experiences. With A Walk in Victoria's Secret, Kate Daniels crafts a bold, brassy, yet delicate vision of a woman's growth. Imbued with a unique poetic voice that is utterly feminist, these poems possess a fiery intensity before those abuses no woman can ever quite recover from, but also reveal the loving, forgiving temperament of the mother no woman can do without. Kate Daniels is the author of three previous collections of poetry, including Four Testimonies. An associate professor of English at Vanderbilt University, she is the recipient of the Hanes Award for Poetry from the Fellowship of Southern Writers and lives in Nashville, Tennessee. And when I turnedfrom the harsh click of the needle's arm resettlingitself in its metal saddle, the world was stained glass,my body a delicate canvas of skin over bone.Something had once been painted there beautifullyand with care. And if it had worn away over the years,or grown encased in a kind of shell? I suddenly sawI could get back my beauty. I could peck my way outlike any young god, or a duckling, the black swanhatching in a nest of white, the dark humof music in a small, tight place that resistsgiving way till the final moment. Then it shuddersapart in an orgy of exit, and the shell -- the shell cracks open. ---from "The Hatching" Used Book in Good Condition