Finishing School by Michaela Coplen Jan Wagner Sweeney’s canvas here is the

Sweeney’s canvas here is the transhuman: where boundaries between human and non-human can’t be fixed

Halfway through the book

” when we are “out to sea” her poems are rowboats

even when treating the gravest subjects

Finishing School by Michaela Coplen Jan Wagner Sweeney’s canvas here is theFrom the first poem in Michaela Coplens pamphlet, the mind begins this squeaking an urgent impulse that never stops. Finishing School charts a young womans growth through an abecedarian form, each poem a letter of the alphabet that marks a different stage of learning. Encountering lessons ranging from childhood dress up games, to instances of intimacy, academic interviews, and funeral planning, the subject navigates an education in womanhood and power