Paperback. Finalist for the 2024 Washington State Book AwardAn NPR Best Book of 2023"Stellar. . . . with great humanity, grace, and precision." -Nicole Sealey, author of Ordinary BeastGabrielle Bates's electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships. The book's eponymous animal is used to lead sheep to slaughter while its own life is spared, and its harrowing existence echoes through this spellbinding collection of forty poems, which wrestle with betrayal and forced obedience, violence and young womanhood, and the "forbidden felt language" of sexual and sacred love. These poems conjure encounters with figures from scriptures, domesticated animals eyeing the wild, and mothering as a shapeshifting, spectral force; they question what it means to love another person and how to exorcise childhood fears. All the while, the Deep South haunts, and no matter how far away the speaker moves, the South always draws her back home.In confession, in illumination, Bates establishes herself as an unflinching witness to the risks that desire necessitates, as Judas Goat holds readers close and whispers its unforgettable lines. Finalist for the 2024 Washington State Book Award An NPR Best Book of 2023 "Stellar. . . . with great humanity, grace, and precision." --Nicole Sealey, author of Ordinary Beast Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Title: Judas Goat (Paperback)
Publisher: Zando
Publication Date: 2023
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1953534643
ISBN 13: 9781953534644
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new

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Finalist for the 2024 Washington State Book Award

An NPR Best Book of 2023

“Stellar. . . . with great humanity, grace, and precision.” —Nicole Sealey, author of Ordinary Beast

Gabrielle Bates’s electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships. The book’s eponymous animal is used to lead sheep to slaughter while its own life is spared, and its harrowing existence echoes through this spellbinding collection of forty poems, which wrestle with betrayal and forced obedience, violence and young womanhood, and the “forbidden felt language” of sexual and sacred love. These poems conjure encounters with figures from scriptures, domesticated animals eyeing the wild, and mothering as a shapeshifting, spectral force; they question what it means to love another person and how to exorcise childhood fears. All the while, the Deep South haunts, and no matter how far away the speaker moves, the South always draws her back home.

In confession, in illumination, Bates establishes herself as an unflinching witness to the risks that desire necessitates, as Judas Goat holds readers close and whispers its unforgettable lines.

About the Author

Gabrielle Bates’s poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, and other publications. A writer, visual artist, and cohost of The Poet Salon podcast, Bates is originally from Birmingham, Alabama, and now lives in Seattle, Washington.

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