In Toxicon & Arachne, McSweeney allows the lyric to course through her like a toxin, producing a quiver of lyrics like poisoned arrows. Toxicon was written in anticipation of the birth of McSweeney’s daughter, Arachne. But when Arachne was born sick, lived brie?fly, and then died, McSweeney unexpectedly endured a second inundation of lyricism, which would become the poems in Arachne, this time spun with grief. Toxicon & Arachne is the culmination of eight years of engagement with lyric under a regime of global and personal catastrophes.
- ISBN10 1643620185
- ISBN13 9781643620183
- Publish Date 21 May 2020 (first published 10 May 2020)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Nightboat Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 112
- Language English