I Thought There Would Be More Wolves

Download or read book I Thought There Would Be More Wolves written by Sara Ryan and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After moving to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, poet Sara Ryan found herself immersed in the isolated spaces of the North: the cold places that never thawed, the bleak expanses of snow. These poems have teeth, bones, and blood—they clack and bruise and make loud sounds. They interrogate self-preservation, familial history, extinction, taxidermy, and animal and female bodies. In between these lines, in warm places where blood collects, animals stay hidden and hunted, a girl looks loneliness dead in the eye, and wolves come out of the woods to run across the frozen water of Lake Superior.