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Cryptid bleeds a cunningly ekphrastic mimesis of t he National Enquirer. Inviting you to indulge your favorite conspiracy theories, these uncanny love poems will force you to question your assumptions of safety, danger, and subjectivity. Collecting all sorts of tender grotesqueries, Browning dishes out unexpected mothers, voiced shadows hiding among canyons and mountains, and the gentlest abductions you can imagine. Readers eat the Lady Sasquatch's broken heart, and it tastes of ""furred-over gelatin"" and ""lacerated beef."" Listen closely to the voices of familiar and unfamiliar monsters. Gravity shifts, and they're calling out into the night. Can you hear them? These poems--engorged, embodied, enmouthed--won't go quietly. --Hannah V. Warren, author of Slaughterhouse for Old Wives' Tales Tender, weird, and heartbreaking, Browning's collection pulses with striking imagery and lush phrasing in honor of the lonely, the unloved, and the abandoned. I want to be abducted by this book. --Alisa Alering, author of Smothermoss

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Annah Browning is the author of the poetry collection Witch Doctrine (University of Akron Press, 2020) and the chapbook The Marriage (Horse Less Press, 2013), and is a cofounder of Grimoire Magazine. Her work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and her PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Hailing from the foothills of South Carolina, Browning currently calls southern Illinois home, where she is a professor of English at Blackburn College.

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