Matryoshka by Kayleigh Campbell Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles and features ten poets: Pilar

and features ten poets: Pilar Adón

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Matryoshka by Kayleigh Campbell Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles and features ten poets: PilarMatryoshka represents the feminist notion that females are human beings with agency; it presents the good, the bad and the incomprehensible. A mixture of confessional and imagined writing, it explores motherhood, love, death and violence. There are saints and sinners, witches, celebrities and mischievous cats against a backdrop of Russian folklore and magical realism. It is haunting and melancholic, unsettling and dark, but there are also little