Brute

Selected by Joy Harjo as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets

''Taut, ferocious . . . This is a book about survival, and a welcome, confident debut'' New York Times Book Review

Emily Skaja''s debut collection is a fiery, hypnotic book that confronts the dark questions and menacing silences around gender, sexuality and violence. Brute arises, brave and furious, from t...