Girl into Fox

by Christine Elizabeth Hamm

"If 'You say your house is burning, / I say mine is sinking'-and so the games begin. As its title suggests, in Girl into Fox we are never permanently sure who is becoming predator or prey. Etched with beauty and rich ruin, Hamm's lyrics call upon the reader to reinvestigate the traumatic. They resituate our sense of threat-accepting it, like 'a dragonfly that] flies into your mouth / and stays there.' These poems are just as fluttering, monstrous,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1949229874
• ISBN13: 9781949229875
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Kelsay Books
• Length: 74 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"