A brand new collection from multiaward winning poet Corey Van Landingham.ampampamp160Reader I draws its title from the conclusion to Charlotte Brontampampamp235eumls Jane Eyre ampampquotReader I married him.ampampquot Spanning the first years of a marriage the speaker in Reader I both courts and eschews nuptial myths as its speakertender and callous skeptical and hopeful daughter and loverampampamp8212finds a role for herself in marriage in history in something beyond the self. While these poems burn with a Plathian fire they also address and invite in a reader who is as in Jane Eyre a confidant. Steeped in a world of husbands and fathers patriarchal nations and power structures Reader I traverses bowling alleys and hospital rooms ancient Troy and public swimming pools to envision domestic life as a metaphor for civic life and vice versa.