Bibliographic information:
Author: Gabrielle Bates
Narrated by: Gabrielle Bates
Release date: January 24, 2023
Pages: 104
Audiobook Duration: 1 h 44 min
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BOOK DESCRIPTION: A Vulture Most Anticipated Book of Winter
A Chicago Review of Books , The Millions, Debutiful, and Write or Die Magazine Best Book of January
An Autostraddle Most Anticipated Queer and Feminist Book of 2023
“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 shapeshifting, 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 readers close and whispers its unforgettable lines.
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