Predators Welcome

By: Dylan Krieger

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Paperback | 1 March 2024

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138 Pages

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Predators Welcome is a book of poems written by one sibling in search of another. Eager to recover some shared mythology with the rest of the world, the speaker of these poems calls for a witness-any witness-to confirm that the frightening cosmologies of childhood were more than just isolated daydreams. Challenging, broadening, and redefining our understanding of predatory animals-and, yes, that means us-this book lays bare both personal and societal cycles of violence and neglect, suggesting their intergenerational reenactment is one way we paradoxically prove ourselves to be a single human family, "raised by the same wolves," with ancestors whose stories must not only be told, but lived and relived. Trapped in such a paradoxical circumstance, the human-as-predator is most dangerous, and yet, most connected to and emboldened by history. In this way, these poems urge us to find commonality not merely in past atrocities, but in a present and future rebellion from historical precedent itself.

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"Coursing through a cauterized national-cultural landscape, transmogrifying spent notions of Self, The Other, and many a vaunted We, Krieger's dionysian fury-Krieger at the mic-is a riveting art form to behold. Gaining devotees by the day (I am one of those Kriegies), her poetics evinces a strength of intellect and flow of feeling that's singular in intensity. In Predators Welcome, we delight in the dismantling of All-American Redemptory Poetics (the hegemon of our times) through a nimble dialectics of Body & Alt-Body, Pain & Infra-Pleasure. Dylan Krieger is not a this-or-that brand of poet, but an accelerant to poetry itself." -Rodrigo Toscano, author of The Cut Point (Counterpath) and Collapsible Poetics Theater (Fence Books, Winner of the National Poetry Series)

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