Beasts for the Chase: Poems

by Monica Ferrell

“Her poems make vivid what has become dusty, and return us to, as real art does, the brilliance of initial perception.”—Jane Hirshfield “The mythmaking in these poems is fierce and wildly original—this is a thrilling new poetic voice.”—Nick Flynn Monica Ferrell was born in 1975 in India. A former Discovery/ The Nation prizewinner and Wallace Stegner Fellow, she currently teaches in the creative writing program at Purchase College. Her first novel, The Answer Is Always Yes , was published by Dial Press in May 2008. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Genres: Poetry

88 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2008

About the author

A darkly exuberant debut novel tracing the rise and fall of a teenage impresario at the zenith of the New York club scene."

Reviews

[Michael]

Anyone with a poem called "Knut Hamsun's Night of Fire" has my undying devotion.

[Sara]

Loved it.

[Lauren]

"Somewhere in this world I will understand my life." Ferrell's work is rustic and wound heavily in myth and history of times long past.

[Madison]

I wish I could think of intelligent things to say, rather than just making a list of my favorite poems. The collection holds together well as a whole and each individual poem is worthwhile, so there's not much more than you could hope for, really.

My favorites included three of the four poems titled "Myths of the Disappearance," "Nighttalking," "At the White Quay," "Eleven Steps to Breaking up a Hart," "Formation," What is the Night," and "Homecoming."

[Kate]

"You keep running from yourself reflected in black pools
While the Horned One waits for you, Lord of Beasts." (From "The Antelope Chase")

Same, girl