Paige Qui??ones's incisive debut poetry collection investigates the trauma of desire. Qui??ones's lyric world is populated with stark dualities: procreation and childlessness, predator and prey, mania and depression. A hunter pursues an ill-fated fox through the woods; heaven is paved with girls who would rather drown than be born; a couple returns from their honeymoon to find a stagnant pond in their marriage bed. Through navigating these duplicities, Qui??ones arrives at a version of femininity that is at once fierce and crystalline, and unmistakably her own. She writes, ""My reflection can only growl back, in water or oil-slick or silver. This is an exercise in forgiveness. I dip my feet in."" The Best Prey charts the complexity of hunger in vivid, visceral terms, and ultimately arrives at a sense of self that encompasses the contradictions of sensuality, violence, and power.
An incisive debut poetry collection that investigates the trauma of desire. Quinones's lyric world is populated with stark dualities: procreation and childlessness, predator and prey, mania and depression.
