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Wolf Devouring a Wolf Devouring a Wolf

by Cassandra Whitaker

Jackleg Press

Paperback or Softback 00086 pages Jul 15, 2025

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Having written a book called Wolf Centos that opens with the quote "All the poetry has wolves in it, Pam," how could I not be entranced by a book such as Wolf Devouring a Wolf Devouring a Wolf, given the ways in which Cassandra Whitaker so exquisitely and recursively renders poem after poem, queering and querying the image of the wolf, writing "Quite like a wolf, but queer. Like hunger / for the moon, except joyous /instead of empty." These are brilliant missives of illumination and transformation that employ wolves, to paraphrase Larry Levis, as emblems of contemplation and examination for what has often been silenced within. Weaving their way through loneliness, emptiness, and hunger, Whitaker crafts an Angela Carter universe where "The wolf unzipped / its fur and slipped out, /a doe"; and where, even in the midst of anger and peril, "the doe began / to sing." This book is that singing and it is marvelous.-Simone Muench
Author:
Cassandra Whitaker
Publisher:
Jackleg Press
Publication Date:
Jul 15, 2025
Number of pages:
00086 pages
Binding:
Paperback or Softback
ISBN-10:
1956907181
ISBN-13:
9781956907186