Judas Goat Poems
Judas Goat Poems by Gabrielle Bates is a debut poetry collection published by National Geographic Books on January 24, 2023. This edition comprises 91 pages and is presented in English. The collection explores the complexities of intimate relationships through a series of forty poems, using the metaphor of the Judas goat to delve into themes of betrayal, obedience, and the nuances of love and sexuality.
Readers will find that Bates’s work engages with various subjects, including the intersections of violence and young womanhood, as well as the haunting presence of the Deep South. The poems conjure vivid imagery and encounters with scriptural figures and the natural world, while also reflecting on the challenges of love and the lingering shadows of childhood fears. Through her unflinching voice, Bates invites readers to consider the risks inherent in desire and the profound connections that shape our lives.
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“Stellar . . . with great humanity, grace and precision.” —Nicole Sealey, author of Ordinary Beast
Gabrielle Bates’s electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships. The book’s eponymous animal is used to lead sheep to slaughter, while its own life is spared, and its harrowing existence echoes through this spellbinding collection of forty poems, which wrestle with betrayal and forced obedience, violence and young womanhood, and the “forbidden felt language” of sexual and sacred love. These poems conjure encounters with figures from scriptures, domesticated animals eyeing the wild, and mothering as a shape-shifting, spectral force; they question what it means to love another person and how to exorcise childhood fears. All the while, the Deep South haunts, and no matter how far away the speaker moves, the South always draws her back home.
In confession, in illumination, Bates establishes herself as an unflinching witness to the risks that desire necessitates, as Judas Goat holds readers close and whispers its unforgettable lines.
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