Death Styles

<p><b>''McSweeney is one of our most dynamic poets'' Nick Ropatrazone, <i>The Millions</i></b><br><br><b><i>''</i>I''ve never read anything by Joyelle McSweeney that wasn''t totally exciting'' Dennis Cooper</b><br><br><b>One of LitHub''s Most Anticipated Books for 2024<br></b><br>In this follow-up to her award-winning collection, <i>Toxicon and Arachne</i>, Joyelle McSweeney proposes a link between style and survival, even in the gravest of circumstances. Setting herself the task of writing a poem a day and accepting a single icon as her starting point, however unlikely - River Phoenix, Mary Magdalene, a backyard skunk - McSweeney follows each inspiration to the point of exhaustion and makes it through each difficult day. <br><br>In frank, mesmeric lyrics, <i>Death Styles</i> navigates the opposing forces of survival and grief, finding a way to press against death''s interface, to step the wrong way out of the grave.</p>