New Release by: Francesca Lia BlockA series of poems that examines ways we can free ourselves through self-knowledge, creative expression and friendship.
In her poetry collection How to (Un)cage a Girl, Francesca Lia Block includes a poem about how, as an anorexic UC Berkeley undergrad, she yearned to run away and live in People's Park, wanting "to join them/leave the plates of greasy food/that congealed their fats.../leave the cruelly beautiful blond boys and girls/in their polo shirts and top-siders/...it would be better to sleep in mud/eat roots and flowers/discarded crusts." Yeah, but she went back to LA and became one of the world's most-worshipped young-adult novelists instead.
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