Back to the Woods

by Cynthia Cruz

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner Cynthia Cruz reevaluates the paradox of the death drive in her eighth collection of poetry, Back to the Woods. Could it be that in ceaselessly snuffing ourselves out we are, in fact, trying to survive? In "Shine," Cruz's speaker attests that "if she] had a home, it would be // a still in a film / where the sound / got jammed." This book inhabits the silence of the empty orchestra pit, facing "dread,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1954245645
• ISBN13: 9781954245648
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Four Way Books
• Length: 74 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.9" x 8.8"