The Jaguar

by Sarah Holland-Batt

With electrifying boldness, Holland-Batt confronts what it means to be mortal in an astonishing and deeply humane portrait of a father's Parkinson's Disease, and a daughter forged by grief. Opening and closing with startling elegies set in the charged moments before and after a death, and fearlessly probing the body's animal endurance, appetites and metamorphoses, The Jaguar is marked by Holland-Batt's lyric intensity and linguistic mastery, along with a stark new clarity of voice. Here, Holland-Batt is at her most exacting and uncompromising: these ferociously intelligent, insistent poems refuse to look away, and challenge us to view ruthless witness as a form of love. The Jaguar is an indelible collection by a poet at the height of her powers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0702265500
• ISBN13: 9780702265501
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: University of Queensland Pr (Australia)
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 5.8"