The Best Prey (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780807175484)

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.

Author: Paige Quines
ISBN-10: 080717548X
ISBN-13: 9780807175484
Publisher: Pleiades Press
Language: English
Published: 02/15/2021
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.90h x 7.80w x 0.20d