What Flies Want - Poems

In What Flies Want, disaster looms in domesticity: a family grapples with its members' mental health, a marriage falters, and a child experiments with self-harm. With its backdrop of school lockdown drills, #MeToo, and increasing political polarization, the collection asks how these private and public tensions are interconnected.

About the author

Emily Pérez is author of House of Sugar, House of Stone and coedited The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood. She works as a high school teacher and dean, and lives in Denver, Colorado.

Product details

• Authors: Emily Perez, Emily Pérez
• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781609388430
• ISBN: 978-1-60938-843-0
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 193 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 113 g
• Series: Iowa Poetry Prize
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama