she wants to tell you about the beehive under her bedroom window but she can't get past the way it sounds like childhood / when she was little and god was a glass eye and nine spotlights yellow as egg yolks. Death & the Maiden: Odes to the Dead Girls of Pop Culture is a look at popular culture from an oft-forgotten vantage; the girls left behind. Sixteen poems for sixteen fictional dead girls, some sad, some wistful, some furious, this chapbook is equal parts celebration and elegy.