The pact
By: Jennifer Militello
Publisher: Tupelo Press
Published: 2021
Place of publication: North Adams, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Number of pages: 82
ISBN-13: 9781946482471
Subjects: American poetry; Poetry
Description: "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" -- from publisher.