Judas Goat by Gabrielle Bates
This collection is a welcomed haunting, visceral and animal, an aching in your bones no matter how tenderly you’re held. Some of my favorites read like a whispered denunciation, so deeply intimate and all the more powerful, as though excavating the self, a history, and society itself with a partner rather than an audience. Both rooted in place and observed from a distance, these poems balance rich imagery with the complexity of memory, the language nearing the ethereal.
Judas Goat by Gabrielle Bates, (List Price: $16.95, Tin House Books, 9781953534644, January 2023)
Reviewed by Miranda Sanchez, Epilogue: Books Chocolate Brews in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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