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"Part wunderkammer, part grimoire, Maggie Queeney's In Kind is focused, finally, on survival. A chorus of personae, speaking into and through a variety of poetic forms, guide the reader through the aftermath of generations of domestic, gendered, and sexual violence, before designing a transformation and rebirth. In Kind works in conversation and collaboration with the myths of Ovid's Metamorphoses, where women are often transformed into the non-human...
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Poems about a woman's reckoning with her violent past, with her sexuality, and with a future unmoored from the trappings of domestic life. These poems of unflinching candor negotiate the terrain of contradictory desire often to darkly comedic effect. In encounters with strangers in dive bars and on highway shoulders, and through ekphrastic engagement with visionaries like William Blake, Još Clemente Orozco, and the Talking Heads, this book seeks...
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