How I Became an Angry Woman is Now Available

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How I Became an Angry WomanAccents is proud to announce our newest chapbook, How I Became an Angry Woman, by Bianca Bargo.

In How I Became an Angry Woman, Bianca Bargo autopsies a doomed love in razor-edged imagery “boiling with lava and venom.” Here we have a man who has “eaten girls’ hearts like valentine candy’ and a woman who has “too many nightmares / of your old lover; / her Fingers, dirty / with knowing you first.” These are volcanic poems that ultimately understand how love—like the truth—is rarely pure and never simple.

—Sarah Freligh

How I Became an Angry Woman

I was born honey-tongued
and eager, a soft thing
looking for legs
to coil around.

Over and over
I opened my mouth
to men in whispers,
kisses, confessions,
prayers to false gods.

I never asked to be this
pale demon with grit teeth.

I just woke up
one morning in her
scorching skin and

blinked against the burn
of new light until I understood
it was my own eyes
full of fire.

Bianca BargoBianca Bargo was born to a loving family in Knox County, Kentucky. She earned her B.A. in English from the University of Kentucky, where she discovered and honed her poetic voice, winning UK’s Farquhar Poetry Award and serving as Managing Editor of Limestone: A Journal of Art and Literature in 2009. From 2010-2014 as she spent her time working in retail and public education and obtaining her MA.Ed. from Eastern Kentucky University, Bianca continued to write and enjoy poetry with the inspiration and support of Lexington’s poetry scene. Her work has been published in Accents Publishing’sBigger Than They Appear: Anthology of Very Short Poems. She currently resides in Lexington, Kentucky with her husband Micah and their pets. She has yet to Figure everything out, but continues to work on it while trusting kindness and curiosity to lead the way.

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