Tales of Ig

By Tamara Barnett-Herrin

Tales of Ig is a collection of poems about-and partially by-an entity named Ig, who asks, alongside a guarded poetic speaker, what it takes to stand on solid ground within an unstable subjectivity. These are dialogues, soliloquies and bargainings where other creatures also emerge: Grandmothers; Snakes; movie directors; foxes; mice, and talking pens. Ig is first met on the staging ground of altered consciousness, only to affirm herself as having been intimately present, all along. Possessing and infiltrating a broken pantoum or a lyric poem, Ig insists on her claim: to be heard, despite the deafening estrangement between speaker and subject.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H8C9SPV5
• ISBN13: 9798899905841
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Finishing Line Press
• Length: 36 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"