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Good Monster
Copper Canyon Press
ISBN13:
9781556596902
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With an equal dose of fatalism and dark wit, Antigua captures the body's capacity to cage and cradle sadness. Diannely Antigua's Good Monster grapples with the body as a site of chronic pain and trauma. Poignant and guttural, the collection "voyage[s] the land between crisis and hope," chronicling Antigua's reckoning with shame and her fallout with faith. As poems cage and cradle devastating truths--a stepfather's abusive touch, a mother's "soft harm"--the speaker's anxiety, depression, and boundless need become monstrous shadows. Here, poems dance on bars, speak in tongues, and cry in psych wards. When "God [becomes] a house [she] can't leave," language becomes the only currency left. We see the messiness of survival unfold through sestinas, a series of Sad Girl sonnets, and diary entries--an invented collage form using Antigua's personal journals. At the crux of despair, Antigua locates a resilient desire to find a love that will remain, to feel pleasure in an inhospitable body and, above all, to keep on living.
- | Author: Diannely Antigua
- | Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
- | Publication Date: May 14, 2024
- | Number of Pages: NA pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1556596901
- | ISBN-13: 9781556596902
- Author:
- Imani Perry
- Publisher:
- Beacon Press
- Publication Date:
- Jan 30, 2024
- Number of pages:
- NA pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0807016268
- ISBN-13:
- 9780807016268