Good Girl and Other Yearnings by Isabelle Correa

Pre order now. Launches april 18, 2025

"In the space between heartbreak and healing, these poems map a universe of longing and possibility"

ABOUT THE BOOK

From "Quantum Mechanics And You" to "Little Red Riding Hood Buys A 6-Pack After EMDR," these poems turn the confessional genre on its head. Correa's debut full-length collection explores how trauma shakes the foundations of identity, and how healing happens on every level: atomic, corporeal, corporate, and cosmic. Raw and lyrical, personal and expansive, these poems are an evocative reclamation of self, a bold bet on existential hope when existential dread is throwing punches.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Isabelle Correa is a poet from Washington state now living in Mexico City. She studied creative writing at Western Washington University, is the winner of the 2024 Jack McCarthy Book Prize, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and the author of the chapbook Sex is From Mars But I Love You From Venus. Her work has appeared in Pank, Third Point Press, The Rebis, and more.

PRAISE FOR GOOD GIRL AND OTHER YEARNINGS

"No one likes a mirror when they expected a window. Isabelle Correa's Good Girl and Other Yearnings offers both—each poem creates a kaleidoscope of girlhood, sisterhood, longing, and above all, a truth that a single reflection can't contain."

—Caroline Earleywine

FROM THE COLLECTION

"I know a tree is a wound

of the earth. I know a wound is an act

of remembrance. I know my mother

was a good woman once and then she turned

inward, a star, dying."

"A poem is a place

I go. It's safe

like an ambulance

is safe.

You being

inside

means

you're already hurt."

VITAL STATISTICS

Publication Date: April 18, 2025

Format: 6" x 9" Paperback

Price: $18.00 USD

ISBN: 978-1-949342-67-3

Publisher: Write Bloody Publishing

Distributor: IPG, Chicago

Book available to order: March 18, 2025