"Artwork by Mollie Goldstrom. Design and typesetting by Doormouse. The type is Didot. Books printed offset and bound at McNaughton &Gunn. Cover offset printing by Prestige Printing. Covers printed letterpress at Ugly Duckling Presse."--Colophon.
Contents:
III. : Lullaby. Recognition -- Park -- What is sex? -- Simpleton -- Cold dance -- Forced dance -- Austere measures -- Simpleton -- Gravity -- Park -- Terrible -- Simpleton ; II. : Park -- The teller -- Duet -- Lap dance -- Emu -- Blue trail -- Restitution -- Twelve brothers -- Rogue -- Teacher-creature -- Hot dance -- The supposed huntsman ; III. : Salt bath -- Perfect -- Last dance, or the Festival of St. John -- Gray dance -- Luff of Musgraffe -- I happen with you -- Explicit -- Clean mind -- Crown -- Happiness -- Mary would not -- Brother Lustig -- Lullaby.
Summary:
"In her debut full-length collection of poems, The Supposed Huntsman, Fowley creates spaces that blur the lines of gender, species, and self: 'Every animal is deadly / even the shape-shifter.' Fowley uses incantatory anaphora to enact endless transformations, becoming by turns a motley, plume-lit teacher-creature and a bear longing, like a bro, for a maiden in a tree. Drawing inspiration from Brothers Grimm fairy tales and troubadour tradition, Fowley's poems elate and interrogate, ever aware that 'childhood is so intensely serious.'"--Publisher's website, viewed July 27, 2021.
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