Gabrielle Bates

Judas Goat (eBook, ePUB)

Poems

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Finalist for the 2024 Washington State Book Award An NPR Best Book of 2023 "Stellar. . . . with great humanity, grace, and precision." -Nicole Sealey, author of Ordinary Beast Gabrielle Bates's electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships. The book's eponymous animal is used to lead sheep to slaughter while its own life is spared, and its harrowing existence echoes through this spellbinding collection of forty poems, which wrestle with betrayal and forced obedience, violence and young womanhood, and the "forbidden felt language" of sexual and sacred love. These poems conjure encounters with figures from scriptures, domesticated animals eyeing the wild, and mothering as a shapeshifting, spectral force; they question what it means to love another person and how to exorcise childhood fears. All the while, the Deep South haunts, and no matter how far away the speaker moves, the South always draws her back home. In confession, in illumination, Bates establishes herself as an unflinching witness to the risks that desire necessitates, as Judas Goat holds readers close and whispers its unforgettable lines.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Zando
• Seitenzahl: 104
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781953534712
• Artikelnr.: 76070980

Autorenporträt

Gabrielle Bates’s poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, and other publications. A writer, visual artist, and cohost of The Poet Salon podcast, Bates is originally from Birmingham, Alabama, and now lives in Seattle, Washington.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents:
The Dog
Should the First Calf of Winter Be White, You’re Going to Hate
Impermanent
Intro to Theater
Effigy
Little Lamb
The Animals We Are
Dear Gretel
Strawberries
[Who Hasn’t Lain in a Yard with Boys]
Dear Birmingham
How Judas Died
Conversation with Mary
Time Lapse
Sabbath
The Mentor
Eastern Washington Diptych
The Greatest Show on Earth
Saint of Ongoingness
Self-Portrait as Provincial
“Person” Comes from “Mask”
When Her Second Horn, the Only Horn She Has Left,
Ice /
/ Tithes
The Bridge
In the Dream in Which I Am a Widow
And Even After All That, No Epiphany
Dance Party at the Public Glasshouse
Judas Goat
The Lucky Ones
Economic Mobility
I Asked // I Got
Illusion
Garden
Rosification
Ownership
Salmon
This Is How Mud Is Made Again
Mothers
Anniversary
Acknowledgments