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""It has been years since I have read a new poet of such rhetorical sophistication and mastery. Wow.""-- Frank Bidart Cruxes in women's lives are the subject of poems in Hard Bargain, including the risks that women take-and the bargains they drive-to achieve autonomy, to safeguard care and pleasure, and to counter the ordinary misogyny in politics and culture, the workplace and the world of art. Narrators in this book-from Daphne to Dora, and from Callas to Leda-upend received ideas about the value of women's lives and loves, the nature of their rights and reckonings.

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Heather Treseler is the author of Auguries & Divinations, whichreceived the 2023 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize and the2024 Sheila Margaret Motton Book Award, and Parturition, whichreceived the international chapbook prize from the Munster LiteratureCentre in Ireland. Her poems appear in The American Scholar, Harvard Review, The Iowa Review, PN Review, and Kenyon Review, and have received the W. B. Yeats Prize, Narrative Magazine's poetryprize, and the Editors' Prize at The Missouri Review. Her work hasbeen supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, theT. S. Eliot House, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences;she is professor of English at Worcester State University and a residentscholar at the Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center.

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