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In this campy, contemporary retelling of the Bluebeard myth, Laura Madeline Wiseman charts the love of three sisters who each marry the same man upon the demise of the sister who preceded her. Bluebeard is usually framed as a story of blood and gore, but Wiseman focuses on the love each of his unfortunate wives felt, the first blush of romance and young marriage, the complicated turns of mature desire and the past we bring into our present affections. Praise for Some Fatal Effects of Curiosity and Disobedience Some Fatal Effects of Curiosity and Disobedience is an ingenious narrative of poems that transposes the Bluebeard myth to our contemporary lives with a chilling authenticity. The juxtapositions of desire and danger, trust and betrayal, innocence and cunning all seem absolutely modern, as if they could be happening down the street or in our own lives, even as we recognize their ancient, terrible truths. Laura Madeline Wisemans command of the language and balance between irony and dead seriousness is pitch-perfect and this is a haunting book. Ellen Bass What happens when a woman dares to enter forbidden spaces? Tucked into legend, the poems in this collection shift from sensual

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Author

Laura Madeline Wiseman

Publisher

New Orleans: Lavender Ink

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781935084334

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Poetry

Rating

4.61 / 5 (28 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14