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Diannely Antigua
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Copper Canyon Press
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May 2024
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Author
Diannely Antigua
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Paperback
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Published
May 2024
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With an equal dose of fatalism and dark wit, Antigua captures the body's capacity to cage and cradle sadness.
Diannely Antigua's Good Monster grapples with the body as a site of chronic pain and trauma. Poignant and guttural, the collection "voyage[s] the land between crisis and hope," chronicling Antigua's reckoning with shame and her fallout with faith. As poems cage and cradle devastating truths--a stepfather's abusive touch, a mother's "soft harm"--the speaker's anxiety, depression, and boundless need become monstrous shadows. Here, poems dance on bars, speak in tongues, and cry in psych wards. When "God [becomes] a house [she] can't leave," language becomes the only currency left. We see the messiness of survival unfold through sestinas, a series of Sad Girl sonnets, and diary entries--an invented collage form using Antigua'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.
Author
Diannely Antigua
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Published
May 2024
Weight
159g
Dimensions
151 x 200 x 12 mm
ISBN
9781556596902
ISBN-10
1556596901
Eden Code
6306922
More Information
Author/Creator: Diannely Antigua
ISBN: 9781556596902
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Release Date: May 2024
Weight: 159g
Dimensions: 151 x 200 x 12 mm
Eden Code: 6306922