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Judas Goat: Poems

Judas Goat: Poems

Bates, Gabrielle
Bates, Gabrielle

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General Poetry

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ISBN13: 9798212394321
Publisher: HighBridge Audio
Published: Jan 24 2023
Language: English
Stellar ... with great humanity, grace and precision. --Nicole Sealey, author of Ordinary Beast

Gabrielle Bates's electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships. The book's eponymous animal is used to lead sheep to slaughter, while its own life is spared, and its harrowing existence echoes through this spellbinding collection of forty poems, which wrestle with betrayal and forced obedience, violence and young womanhood, and the forbidden felt language of sexual and sacred love. These poems conjure encounters with figures from scriptures, domesticated animals eyeing the wild, and mothering as a shape-shifting, spectral force; they question what it means to love another person and how to exorcise childhood fears. All the while, the Deep South haunts, and no matter how far away the speaker moves, the South always draws her back home.

In confession, in illumination, Bates establishes herself as an unflinching witness to the risks that desire necessitates, as Judas Goat holds listeners close and whispers its unforgettable lines.

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