I don’t want to build a wall between me and my farmer neighbor. I never even liked it until I read 'Beowulf.' Robert Frost is OK, but monsters? I didn’t know we could do that. We were always forced to read terrible poetry. “No one else dressed up, and it kind of hit me for the first time,” she says. Instead, she cobbled together a complete Gandalf costume and read “Chip the glasses and crack the plates” by J.R.R.
Other kids picked the usual Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson and performed in their street clothes, but not Walrath. When Holly Lyn Walrath was in a Round Rock high school in the ’90s, her English teacher made everyone select a poem and recite it in front of the class. We Are Here to Hurt Each Other by Paula D.Houston writer Holly Lynn Walrath.
When The Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen Review. "Īmazon | Goodreads | Bookshop Cassie's Review Hold it close, memorize its contents for these poems are warnings, a resounding alarm. If you're lucky, you'll learn what to do when the lights flicker, when the lightbulb goes out, when darkness becomes your only friend, and the next time you hear a whisper, or feel the hot breath of fear on your neck, you'll remember what do, where to go.īecause this is a book that teaches you how to hunt monsters, how to track fiends, how to bathe in the blood and digestive juices all of things that go bump in the night. It's a dance of specters and spiders, a logbook of limbs and lost persons. Here you'll meet jinn, vampires, werewolves, and wendigos, tangle with mermaids, wraiths, aswang and hellhounds. Filled with magnificent beasts and the sounds of cracked bones and broken teeth, Wolfe takes her readers through the folklore and mythology behind some of the world's most terrifying creatures. This is a collection of poems that bite, scratch, snarl, and bleed. "When was the last time you walked through the woods? Checked under your bed? Walked down into your basement alone? Monstrum Poetica by Jezzy Wolfe is an invocation of boogeymen, a graveyard seance, a summons to horrors both large and small.
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