A 2022 Washington State Book Award finalist Environmental collapse.
The betrayals and alliances of the animal world. A father who works
in a timber mill. The celebrities in our feeds, the stories we tell
ourselves. Loss, never-ending loss. Self-Portrait with
Cephalopod-selected by francine j. harris as winner of the Jake
Adam York Prize-is an account of being a girl, and then a woman, in
the world; of being a living creature on a doomed planet; of being
someone who aspires to do better but is torn between attention and
distraction. Here, Kathryn Smith offers observations and anxieties,
prophecies and prayers, darkness and light-but never false hope.
Instead, she incises our vanities and our hypocrisies, "the bloody
hand holding back / the skin," revealing "the world's inner
workings, / rubbery and caught between the teeth." These are the
poems of someone who feels her and our failings in the viscera, in
the bones, and who bears witness to that pain on the page.
Self-Portrait with Cephalopod is an urgent and necessary collection
about living in this precarious moment, meditative and resolutely
unsentimental.
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