Once Read as Ruin

Once Read as Ruin is centered on the domestic, aesthetics, intimacies between humans and human and animal, and union's faltering. The speakers in these poems probe expectation and dream, deconstruct and construct intimacy through relationships with humans and animals, like horses, rabbits, dogs, mice, and more. The titular poem was a finalist for Rabbit Catastrophe's Real Good Poem Prize.

About the author

Katherine Gaffney completed her MFA at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is currently a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Southern Mississippi. Her work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in jubilat, Rabbit Catastrophe, Harpur Palate, the Mississippi Review, Meridian, the Tampa Review, and elsewhere. Once Read as Ruin is her first chapbook.

Product details

• Authors: Katherine Gaffney
• Publisher: Finishing Line Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.11.2021
• EAN: 9781646626991
• ISBN: 978-1-64662-699-1
• No. of pages: 40
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 3 mm
• Weight: 65 g
• Series: New Women's Voices Series
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama