Animal

Animal

Animal explores the depths of self-reflection through a coalescence of opposing forces, a confessional display of raw tenderness that blooms through a violent wilderness. These poems are open wounds that unveil memories & their ghosts, offering gifts of hard won wisdom and visceral clarity to carry into the present. In this debut collection, Grisafi unveils beauty found in the darkest niches of the self & reveals a reclamation of the animal that howls within us.

“In this brilliant, lyrical haunted house ride to the point of no return, Patricia Grisafi takes us on a swift, knife-sharp investigation of everything from the far reaches of creativity and the erotics of the archive to captivity narratives and trauma metaphysics. Grisafi is David Lynch meets Anne Sexton, and when she asks to be made into a book when she dies, I think it’s best that we obey her.”

— Caroline Hagood, author of Making Maxine’s Baby and Weird Girls

Patricia Grisafi, PhD, is a freelance culture writer and essayist. She is the author of Breaking Down Plath (Jossey-Bass), a literary companion on Sylvia Plath for middle and high school students. She lives in New York City with her husband, two children, and two rescue dogs. This is her first poetry collection.