Sadness of the Apex Predator
Dion O'Reilly
(Author)
Description
The beauty and danger of an isolated family compound, the corruption that privilege can bring, an extensive burn injury that interrupts a girl's life, and the many predators who swoop in when the scarred woman is loosed, again, into the world-all of this is woven throughout Sadness of the Apex Predator, a collection of poems that studies both the way Sapiens feed on one another and also the redemption our hungers can bring.
Product Details
| Publisher | Cornerstone Press |
| Publish Date | February 05, 2024 |
| Pages | 106 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9781960329271 |
| Dimensions | 8.5 X 5.5 X 0.3 inches | 0.3 pounds |
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Reviews
"A tour de force with urgent poems that address the perilous present and the past that's gotten us here. . . . A burn survivor, O'Reilly writes visceral poems addressing not only the pain but also vulnerability. These are wonderful and necessary poems."
-Denise Duhamel, author of Second Story
"There's an entire world here, as well as the history of beauty and unspeakable brutality of which the human animal is equally capable. The poems are searingly vivid, public, political, but also intensely and painfully intimate. . . .This is one of my favorite books in recent memory. What a voice."
-Erin Bilieu, author of Come-Hither Honeycomb
"With language both muscular and merciless, O'Reilly debrides aggression from the newfound body of her speaker. She lays bare some very hard truths, yet these are poems that teach foremost of decency, cautioning us to wean ourselves of the hindbrain's instinct to inflict harm, of the impulse to place ourselves first."
-Rooja Mohassessy, author of When Your Sky Runs Into Mine
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