Suede Mantis / Soft Rage Kay Gabriel ” “Pets—the private

” “Pets—the private

newly and assuredly translated by Laura Cesarco Eglin

With this collection

waarin het persoonlijke en politieke

Like its sister book

Suede Mantis / Soft Rage Kay Gabriel ” “Pets—the privateJennifer Soong Swaying between command and curiosity, acquiescence and destruction, distance and proximity, Jennifer Soongs Suede Mantis Soft Rage proffers tenderness that teeters on the precipice of loss. Premised on this peril is not a paralyzing grief but a generative poiesis of cruel desperation, in which poetry pronounces itself in contrasts and conditionals, had beens and renunciations. Like a tongue that tans flesh, like passion thats made