The Ninth Island
Paperback
Publisher Price: $9.00
ISBN13: 9781943899241
Publisher: Cooper Dillon Books
Published: Oct 30 2026
Pages: 46
Weight: 0.13
Height: 0.12 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Ninth Island is an ethereal portrait of female rage, self-destruction and survival. These poems offer a fractured vision of beauty, one that is brutal and unafraid of the violence that hums honestly beneath the surface of everyday life. This collection treats place not just as a backdrop, but as emotional terrain shaped by memory and contradiction. Fused with punchy dark humor and confessional intensity that offers no easy redemption, these poems do not ask to be palatable; they do not beg forgiveness; they demand to be witnessed. This is a rebellious voice - half-lit, unflinching and reaching toward tender.
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