Yours, Creature
Yours, Creature by Jessica Cuello, published by JackLeg Press on June 13, 2022, is a collection of 97 pages of epistolary poetry that captures the voice of Mary Shelley. The poems are crafted as missives to her literary mother, Wollstonecraft, and delve into themes of exile, transience, and desire, offering a unique perspective on Shelley’s existence through vivid and evocative language.
Readers will find that the poems not only reflect on Shelley’s historical context but also transcend time, addressing the complexities of loss and the violence that women have historically faced. The collection explores the relationship between scarcity and creation, revealing how the monstrous can emerge from rejection. Through its lyrical quality, Yours, Creature celebrates the transformative power of creation, inviting readers to engage with the intricate interplay of inspiration and the challenges of existence.
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Yours Creature is composed of epistolary poems in the voice of Mary Shelley. Often written as missives to her famous literary mother, Wollstonecraft, the poems address months, years, and her own monstrous creation as they contend with exile, transience, and desire. These poems ask us to imagine the physical elements of Shelley’s existence in language that is both luminous and visceral. This is not a book that simply recreates a past, but one that transcends time as it threads together the loss and violence that history has asked women to suppress. The poems recognize the unspoken pairing of scarcity and creation; they explore how the monstrous is born out of rejection. Yours, Creature responds to a literary and historical narrative, but the poems exist as lyric, singing of the pleasure of creation and its transformative power.
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