Self-Portrait with Cephalopod by Kathryn Smith

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Self-Portrait with Cephalopodย is an urgent and necessary collection about living in this precarious moment, meditative and resolutely unsentimental.

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โ€œBeautiful and timely work . . . Lush and obsessed and frantic and deathy.โ€ โ€”FRANCINE J. HARRIS

โ€œFrom that day on the surface was never enough.โ€

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.ย Self-Portrait with Cephalopodโ€”selected by francine j. harris as winner of the Jake Adam York Prizeโ€”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 lightโ€”but never false hope. Instead, she incises our vanities and our hypocrisies, โ€œthe bloody hand holding back / the skin,โ€ revealing โ€œthe worldโ€™s inner workings, / rubbery and caught between the teeth.โ€ 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 Cephalopodย is an urgent and necessary collection about living in this precarious moment, meditative and resolutely unsentimental.

Self-Portrait with Cephalopod by Kathryn Smith
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