Wolf Cut - by Anna Journey (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Wolf Cut gathers nearly twenty years of work by Anna Journey, one of her generation's most fearlessly imaginative poets. She brings to her edgy, cinematic poems a raconteur's sly humor and anecdotal ease as well as intricately braided temporalities. From her early work's baroque lyricism tinged with the southern gothic to her capacious later poems' signature meditative charisma, Journey reminds us that mystery and imagination are the luminous thresholds through which our reckonings must pass.

Review Quotes

"Anna Journey's Wolf Cut is equal parts song and cinema, which is to say a treat for both the ear and the eye. Lush. Rhythmic. Resonant images. Soulful. Searching. Searing. Reading this collection is like watching a Fellini film on mute, 'round midnight, while Sonny Rollins solos from a neighbor's half-open window."--John Murillo

"Anna Journey's poetry is really magical."--David Lynch

"Journey's poems are big, rangy, expansive in Whitmanesque, democratic ways. They have a narrative charisma but maintain Dickinson's perversity, independence. Journey is as much a storyteller as a poet. Few write with her variety of emotional, intellectual, and musical muscle."--Terrance Hayes

"What I've always loved most about Journey's work is how she interrogates the grotesque, uncovers the vulnerable tenderness hiding underneath, and blesses it. What a gift to read this wonderful celebration of one of the most unpredictable and compassionate poets of our age."--Nicky Beer

About the Author

Anna Journey is the author of the poetry collections The Judas Ear, The Atheist Wore Goat Silk, Vulgar Remedies, and If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting, which was selected by Thomas Lux for the National Poetry Series. She is associate professor of English at the University of Southern California.