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    612-822-4611

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The Best Prey

The Best Prey

Quiñones, Paige

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General Poetry

Publisher Price: $20.95

ISBN10: 080717548X
ISBN13: 9780807175484
Publisher: Pleiades Press
Published: Feb 15 2021
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.20 Width: 7.80 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Paige Quiñones's incisive debut poetry collection investigates the trauma of desire. Quiñones'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, Quiñones arrives at a version of femininity that is at once fierce and crystalline, and unmistakably her own. She writes, My reflection can only growl back, in water or oil-slick or silver. This is an exercise in forgiveness. I dip my feet in. The Best Prey charts the complexity of hunger in vivid, visceral terms, and ultimately arrives at a sense of self that encompasses the contradictions of sensuality, violence, and power.

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