Good Monster
Antigua, Diannely
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 “so...
