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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Good Monster

Good Monster

Antigua, Diannely

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $19.00

ISBN10: 1556596901
ISBN13: 9781556596902
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: May 14 2024
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.91 Depth: 7.87
Language: English
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.

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