The Best Prey
Quiñones, Paige
Paige Quiñones's incisive debut poetry collection investigates the trauma of desire. Quiñones'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 dupli...