Suede Mantis / Soft Rage

By Jennifer Soong

Swaying between command and curiosity, acquiescence and destruction, distance and proximity, Jennifer Soong's SUEDE MANTIS / SOFT RAGE proffers tenderness that teeters on the precipice of loss. Premised on this peril is not a paralyzing grief but a generative poiesis of "cruel desperation," in which poetry pronounces itself in contrasts and conditionals, had beens and renunciations. Like a tongue that tans flesh, like passion that's made pliable by the pulsing and glistening of language, SUEDE MANTIS / SOFT RAGE is the negotiated labor of a process rather than a product, raising interior operations to the surface while presenting an antithesis to mimetic construction. Neo-romantic and post-pastoral, the poems in Soong's second collection reinvigorate lyric possibility.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0999431293
• ISBN13: 9780999431290
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Black Sun Lit
• Length: 107 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 7.7"