Judas Goat by Gabrielle Bates
A charged collection of poems that meditates on betrayal, complicity, and desire, using animal, biblical, and domestic imagery to probe how love can sharpen into harm and tenderness can mask control. Moving between the American South and the Pacific Northwest, the speaker navigates girlhood, marriage, and artistic ambition, confronting lineage, faith, and the ethics of looking. Through precise, sensuous language and recurring figures—especially the sacrificial guide who leads others to danger—the poems reckon with what it means to be both subject and witness, agent and accomplice, in a world where intimacy and violence often intertwine.
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- Published
- 2023
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Very Short
- Pages
- 96
- Original Language
- English
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