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Judas Goat by Gabrielle BatesGabrielle Batess electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships. The books 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

when we view ourselves as most alone we will discover our connection to creation

The child survives an injurious mother and the beast-shaped men she brings home

It’s poetry that makes everything happen

yet he finds within himself the capacity to meet it with optimism and a renewed love for his birthplace

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Here is a book that thinks and loves deeply in order to survive the infinite collapse of the system

you can wipe it away with the back of your hands and you can never get enough

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She would later understand that these “minor feelings” occur when American optimism contradicts your own reality—when you believe the lies you’re told about your own racial identity

the tenderness of grief stained just below doll

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