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Forgive the Animal: Poems
86 pages, Paperback
Published September 16, 2024
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May 31, 2025
Worlds and memories collide in Sarah Pape’s Forgive the Animal--against a stark landscape of slip sinkers and jerk bait, falling-down houses and azaleas, aluminum boats, and rotary phones-- the speaker in these poems is capable of profound self-reflection and self-knowledge. Sewn across decades in a small town that could be the reader’s own small town, the tapestry of “surviving young” blooms to life. Somehow the speaker in these poems untangles her complex family history just in time to make her own.
October 3, 2024
This lush and lyrical collection by an underrated poet gave me all the feels. Highly recommend.
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