Wolves in Shells
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Wolves in Shells

  1. 96 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Wolves in Shells

About this book

Winner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry

Wolves in Shells is a modern monomyth telling the story of a woman navigating homelessness, trauma, and memories as she attempts to leave a violent partner. Reflecting on her familial heritage, this survivor grapples with the way she, the women of her history, and her daughter have been conditioned to accommodate the demands of the male ego and predation. Reflective, clear-eyed, and incisive, the poems of Wolves in Shells feature O-Six, a wolf born into the rewilding territory of Yellowstone National Park in the 1990s who serves as a metaphor for women who must cope with violence and survive on their own. Drawing from Gaston Bachelard’s quote “wolves in shells are crueler than stray ones,” the narrative considers how survival requires a balance of protectiveness, risk, trust, and escape.
 

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Information

Publisher
The Backwaters Press
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781496244130
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
American Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. The Backwaters Prize in Poetry
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. The Howl
  7. Says the Mollusk
  8. I Wanted to Be a Boy
  9. When Anxious, They Tell Us to Make Our World Smaller
  10. Old Shell
  11. Wolf Story
  12. My Mother Wears a Bikini at South Haven Beach
  13. A Pedagogy for Lesser Bodies
  14. How to Do Subtraction
  15. Taxonomy
  16. Elegy for Charley
  17. Field Note on Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space
  18. Two Wolves
  19. Everything’s Fine
  20. Open Mic
  21. Steven Turnball
  22. After Leaving
  23. I Don’t Tell My Daughter I Wrote Another Wolf Poem
  24. Among Fingernail Clams
  25. Protections
  26. At the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum
  27. A Patch of Blue
  28. Luxuries
  29. On the Ishnala Trail
  30. Dad
  31. For Practical Purposes
  32. Because Memory, I Am Told, Is Unreliable—
  33. Irregular Patterns of Endangered Migrations
  34. Mountain Story
  35. Field Note on Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space
  36. The Unusual Art of Living Well
  37. How to Forgive the Predator
  38. After I Tell a Man I Can’t Date Him Because of My Hidden Disability
  39. Hunter’s Moon
  40. Nocturne
  41. Gestation
  42. America
  43. Borders
  44. Unpacking
  45. Preacher’s Daughter
  46. My Daughter and I Gather Stones at Empire Beach
  47. At the Butterfly Habitat
  48. First Visit to the Sister Survivors Exhibit
  49. Spirit of the Animal
  50. Upon Viewing Katrín Sigurdardóttir’s Metamorphic
  51. At a Monastic Retreat
  52. The Hunter
  53. The Book of Birds
  54. After My Father Tells Me He Loves the 23rd Psalm
  55. Field Note on Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space
  56. My Grandmother’s Ashes
  57. The World Is Whatever We Choose to Make It
  58. Elegy for My Daughter Who Has Never Known a Paradise
  59. Civil Assault
  60. This Much
  61. Root
  62. They Tell Us to Live in the Moment Because the Moment Is All We May Have
  63. Smile Back
  64. Acknowledgments
  65. Notes
  66. Backwaters Prize in Poetry