The Truth About Queens challenges conventional form with poems that depart from verse and move toward prosaic arrangement. Reveles employs devices such as lists, vignettes, and lyrics to convey stories about girlhood and womanhood threaded together by memories, both real and imagined.

“Everything is deliberate in my writing, from the specific language employed in a given poem, to line breaks, syntax, punctuation or lack thereof, to overall presentation,” said Reveles. “Each of these components works toward constructing new memory, new experience through the reader’s engagement with a poem.”

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ABOUT AUTHOR
Jessica Joy Reveles studied Creative Writing at the University of Southern California, and has lectured and presented her work in a variety of forums at USC and Brown University. The Truth About Queens is her first published volume of poetry. Reveles is involved in the editing and publication process of her next book to be released in the winter of 2008 and made available on Lulu. Reveles also works full time with children to build reading, writing, and math skills; writes from home; and conducts local readings and book discussion groups.

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