I Am Not Your Final Girl: Poems

Now an Elgin-award nominated book!

"There is nothing else in this world / like realizing / you’re going to live / and not being sure / you can."

From Claire C. Holland, a timely collection of poetry that follows the final girl of slasher cinema - the girl who survives until the end - on a journey of retribution and reclamation. From the white picket fences of 1970s Haddonfield to the apocalyptic end of the world, Holland confronts the role of women in relation to subjects including feminism, sexuality, violence, and healing in the world of Trump and the MeToo movement. Each poem centers on a fictional character from horror cinema, and explores the many ways in which women find empowerment through their own perceived monstrousness.

• There Is Beauty In the Bleeding
• Letting Go Is an Acquired Taste
• Love For Slaughter
• The Last Final Girl
• Tragedy Queens: Stories Inspired by Lana Del Rey & Sylvia Plath
• the witch doesn't burn in this one
• Semicolon;
• the mermaid's voice returns in this one
• The Devil's Dreamland: Poetry Inspired by H.H. Holmes
• Euphoria