Girl Work Author|E.C. Belli --True Love is the final

--True Love is the final and permanent phase of love

Since declared cancer-free

She lived in Paris for 5 years where she picked up a couple of phrases in French and an insatiable appetite for French pastries

and teach us the most important rule of all

Girl Work Author|E.C. Belli --True Love is the finalWINNER OF THE 2022 NOEMI PRESS BOOK AWARD IN POETRY GIRL WORK, a book length meditation on sexual violence and feminized labor, centers hybrid form and prose poems exploring haunting, labor, sexual trauma, and the assertion of a gender nonconforming self in our current political moment. Written in injunctions to the self, to past assailants, and to friends, GIRL WORK challenges canonical representations of pain as punitive, redemptive, or separable