Description
"This bewitching debut delivers everything the title promises and more." --Electric Literature In SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS, Mag Gabbert redefines the bestiary in fiery, insistent, and resistant terms. These poems recast the traumas of her adolescence while charting new paths toward linguistic and bodily autonomy as an adult. Using dreamlike, shimmering imagery, she pieces together a fractured portrait of femininity--one that electrifies the confessional mode with its formal play and rich curiosity. Gabbert examines the origin of shame, the role of inheritance, and what counts as a myth, asking, "What's the opposite of a man? / A woman? A wound? The devil's image?"
Author: Mag Gabbert
Publisher: Mad Creek Books
Published: 03/13/2023
Pages: 84
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.82h x 5.91w x 0.39d
ISBN13: 9780814258613
ISBN10: 0814258611
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Women Authors
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Family
- Poetry | American | General
Author: Mag Gabbert
Publisher: Mad Creek Books
Published: 03/13/2023
Pages: 84
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.82h x 5.91w x 0.39d
ISBN13: 9780814258613
ISBN10: 0814258611
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Women Authors
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Family
- Poetry | American | General
About the Author
Mag Gabbert has received a Discovery Award from 92NY's Unterberg Poetry Center and fellowships from the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop and Idyllwild Arts. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Paris Review Daily, Pleiades, Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere. She teaches at Southern Methodist University.
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