With Midnight Down Your Throat by Caitlyn Curran

Published: 2022
Poetry
ISBN: 978-1-955082-03-7

“These necessary, urgent, pitch-perfect poems sing of damage–from early death, addiction, family violence–but also of survival and growing up, blending the confessional and formal with seeming effortlessness. No one but Curran could use the ancient Persian ghazal to talk about being ‘pretty white trash’ this naturally, or grieve a boyfriend, killed in a gruesome wreck, with such tenderness, such directness, such lyricism that we almost feel the blood under our own fingernails. ‘The hose water / spat back nothing / but more glare,’ Curran writes, and these are scintillating, visceral poems that have light and life glaring off every word.” –Alexandra Teague, author of Or What We’ll Call Desire