gentileschi's "judith slaying holofernes"
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on the edge of the bed [me] pushing with a hand to prevent [him] Lifting his face I pulled his hair tight and with [a] knife removed a piece of flesh It is true it is true it is true it is true I have killed him best I could |
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Words, other than those bracketed, are excerpted from Artemisia Gentileschi’s courtroom testimony against her rapist, as found in Mary D. Garrard’s Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art.
Michal Leibowitz was born and raised in White Plains, New York. Her poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Boxcar Poetry Review, Crab Creek Review, The Greensboro Review, and The Journal. She is the recipient of CALYX Journal’s 2016 Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize, the 2018 Geballe Prize for Writing, and the 2018 Urmy/Hardy Poetry Prize. Michal is an undergraduate at Stanford University.