Document Type
Creative Writing
Publication Date
2015
Disciplines
Poetry
Augustana Digital Commons Citation
Gasper, Marissa. "Body Image" (2015). Vázquez-Valarezo Poetry Award.
https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/vazquezvalarezo/4
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Comments
1st Place Winner, 2015
Judges' Comments:
"Body Image" uses a clear, direct, strong tone to challenge mainstream narratives of body image. The poem's metaphors and imagery, though, complicate that tone, fighting with connection. It's this tension between fight and connection that propels the poem. For example, in the image of "wrought iron gates" we see a voice owning the authority to shut out but also allow in.