Good Monster(1st Edition)

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Book Price $0 : With An Equal Dose Of Fatalism And Dark Wit, Antigua Captures The Bodyâ??s Capacity To Cage And Cradle Sadness. Diannely Antiguaâ??s Good Monster Grapples With The Body As A Site Of Chronic Pain And Trauma. Poignant And Guttural, The Collection â??voyage[s] The Land Between Crisis And Hope,â? Chronicling Antiguaâ??s Reckoning With Shame And Her Fallout With Faith. As Poems Cage And Cradle Devastating Truthsâ??a Stepfatherâ??s Abusive Touch, A Motherâ??s â??soft Harmâ?â??the Speakerâ??s Anxiety, Depression, And Boundless Need Become Monstrous Shadows. Here, Poems Dance On Bars, Speak In Tongues, And Cry In Psych Wards. When â??God [becomes] A House [she] Canâ??t Leave,â? Language Becomes The Only Currency Left. We See The Messiness Of Survival Unfold Through Sestinas, A Series Of Sad Girl Sonnets, And Diary Entriesâ??an Invented Collage Form Using Antiguaâ??s Personal Journals. At The Crux Of Despair, Antigua Locates A Resilient Desire To Find A Love That Will Remain, To Feel Pleasure In An Inhospitable Body And, Above All, To Keep On Living. See more