The Pact
Tupelo Press, 2021
Paper: 978-1-946482-47-1
Library of Congress Classification PS3613.I53225P33 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6
Paper: 978-1-946482-47-1
Library of Congress Classification PS3613.I53225P33 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
In her newest collection, award-winning poet and memoirist Jennifer Militello confronts obsession, intimacy, and abuse. Through love poems inspired by such disparate spaces as a British art museum and the reptile house of a local zoo, poems comparing a romantic affair to the religious cult at Jonestown and a mother’s role to a Congolese power figure bristling with nails, The Pact offers an indictment against affection and a portent against zeal. This book places pleasure alongside pain, even as it delivers Militello’s trademark talent for innovation and ritualization of the strange.
