I Thought There Would Be More Wolves: Poems

After moving to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, poet Sara Ryan found herself immersed in the isolated spaces of the North: the cold places that never thawed, the bleak expanses of snow. These poems have teeth, bones, and blood--they clack and bruise and make loud sounds. They interrogate self-preservation, familial history, extinction, taxidermy, and animal and female bodies. In between these lines, in warm places where blood collects, animals stay hidden and hunted, a girl looks loneliness dead in the eye, and wolves come out of the woods to run across the frozen water of Lake Superior.

About the author

Sara Ryan is the author of the chapbooks Never Leave the Foot of an Animal Unskinned and Excellent Evidence of Human Activity. She is a managing editor at Iron Horse Literary Review.

Product details

• Authors: Sara Ryan
• Publisher: Univ Of Alaska Pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781602234499
• ISBN: 978-1-60223-449-9
• No. of pages: 95
• Dimensions: 229 mm x 154 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 178 g
• Series: Permafrost Prize; PERMAFROST PRIZE SERIES
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Literature: general, reference works