By Diane Seuss

ISBN-10: 1555977227

ISBN-13: 9781555977221

"Diane Seuss writes with the depth of a soothsayer." —Laura Kasischke

For, having imagined your physique a method i discovered it to be differently, it was once yielding,
yet in basic terms because the Destroying Angel mushroom yields, its softness allied
with its poison, and your legs weren't petals or tendrils as i would believed,
yet brazen, the deviant tentacles underneath the underskirt of a mystery queen
—from "Oh four-legged woman, it is both you or the ossuary"

In Diane Seuss's Four-Legged Girl, her audacious, hothouse language swerves into discomfort and rapture, as she recounts a existence lived on the edges of containment. Ghostly, attractive, and plaintive, those poems bypass to the song of a bounce rope, fill a wishing good with hope and different trinkets, and so they take into accout previous lush lives in manhattan urban, in rural Michigan, and in love. within the ultimate poem, she sings of the four-legged lady, the physique made unusual to itself and to others. This assortment establishes Seuss's poetic voice, as wealthy and emotional as any in modern poetry.

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