The Best Prey

By Paige Qui�ones

Paige Qui ones's incisive debut poetry collection investigates the trauma of desire. Qui ones's lyric world is populated with stark dualities: procreation and childlessness, predator and prey, mania and depression. A hunter pursues an ill-fated fox through the woods; heaven is paved with girls who would rather drown than be born; a couple returns from their honeymoon to find a stagnant pond in their marriage bed. Through navigating these duplicities, Qui ones arrives at a version of femininity that is at once fierce and crystalline, and unmistakably her own. She writes, "My reflection can only growl back, in water or oil-slick or silver. This is an exercise in forgiveness. I dip my feet in." The Best Prey charts the complexity of hunger in vivid, visceral terms, and ultimately arrives at a sense of self that encompasses the contradictions of sensuality, violence, and power.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080717548X
• ISBN13: 9780807175484
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Pleiades Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.8" x 8.9"