Stalking Joy

by Margaret Benbow, Robert A. Fink, Robert A Fink

1997 Winner Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry"A quest, not for fickle happiness, whose pursuit is unworthy, but joy, more durable and much harder won."--Robert A. Fink"A wild, wild ride. Fierce and chancy, passionate and bawdy, Margaret Benbow's exuberant first book is nothing short of rapturous, enrapturing. . . . She's drawn to the hot, the dangerous, the lush, the profuse. Given the choice of angel or bogeyman, she'll take the bogeyman every time."--Ronald Wallace How to Tell a Bird of PreyGirls weighing less than a hundred pounds, girls who look as though they were raised onmilk veal and summer wine, can chew down through the roofand devour whole families. This one wantsthe man: rank and sexy as an old bobcat.She likes his face, that mess of big prize vegetableswith rooty beard and spud chin, red onion cheeksand hot toad tongue: Wonderful things might happen, she reflects, if I kiss a toad.She doesn't see his nose, that crackbrain crackheart beak.She doesn't mark his gaze, beautiful blood in the raptor's eye.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896723755
• ISBN13: 9780896723757
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.3"