The Dominant Animal

By: Kathryn Scanlan

in the dominant animal--kathryn scanlan's adventurous, unsettling debut collection--compression is key. sentences have been relentlessly trimmed, tuned, and teased for maximum impact, and a ferocious attention to rhythm and sound results in a palpable pulse of excitability and distress. the nature of love is questioned at a golf course, a flower shop, an all-you-can-eat buffet. the clay head of a...