Beschrijving
An incisive debut poetry collection that investigates the trauma of desire. Quinones’s lyric world is populated with stark dualities: procreation and childlessness, predator and prey, mania and depression.
Paige Qui??ones’s incisive debut poetry collection investigates the trauma of desire. Qui??ones’s lyric world is populated with stark dualities: procreation and childlessness, predator and prey, mania and depression. A hunter pursues an ill-fated fox through the woods; heaven is paved with girls who would rather drown than be born; a couple returns from their honeymoon to find a stagnant pond in their marriage bed. Through navigating these duplicities, Qui??ones arrives at a version of femininity that is at once fierce and crystalline, and unmistakably her own. She writes, \
