Judas Goat Zayni Barakat The Breaking of the Day

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this book presents a significant overview of the drama of our era

Judas Goat Zayni Barakat The Breaking of the DayGabrielle Batess electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships. The books eponymous animal is used to lead sheep to slaughter while its own life is spared, and its harrowing existence echoes through this spellbinding collection of forty poems, which wrestle with betrayal and forced obedience, violence and young womanhood, and the forbidden felt language of sexual and sacred love. These poems conjure encounters with