Mademoiselle Ovary

Poetry, often misjudged as flowery or frivolous, is actually a very efficient form of literature that can deliver a point of practical value in a mere few words of rhythm as opposed to multiple paragraphs of meandering prose. The sonnets of Mademoiselle Ovary were written by a woman for the girls and young women whom she sees randomly in her daily life, and through whom she remembers herself at those ages of awkwardness and self-doubt and confusion from social, academic, and familial expectation