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''McSweeney is one of our most dynamic poets'' Nick Ropatrazone, The Millions

''I''ve never read anything by Joyelle McSweeney that wasn''t totally exciting'' Dennis Cooper

One of LitHub''s Most Anticipated Books for 2024

In this follow-up to her award-winning collection, Toxicon and Arachne, Joyelle McSweeney proposes a link between style and survival, even in the gravest of circumstances. Setting herself the task of writing a poem a day and accepting a single icon as her starting point, however unlikely - River Phoenix, Mary Magdalene, a backyard skunk - McSweeney follows each inspiration to the point of exhaustion and makes it through each difficult day.

In frank, mesmeric lyrics, Death Styles navigates the opposing forces of survival and grief, finding a way to press against death''s interface, to step the wrong way out of the grave.

Death Styles

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      Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
      Published 1 February 2024
      ISBN-13 9781472159298
      978-1472159298
      ISBN-10 1472159292
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''McSweeney is one of our most dynamic poets'' Nick Ropatrazone, The Millions

      ''I''ve never read anything by Joyelle McSweeney that wasn''t totally exciting'' Dennis Cooper

      One of LitHub''s Most Anticipated Books for 2024

      In this follow-up to her award-winning collection, Toxicon and Arachne, Joyelle McSweeney proposes a link between style and survival, even in the gravest of circumstances. Setting herself the task of writing a poem a day and accepting a single icon as her starting point, however unlikely - River Phoenix, Mary Magdalene, a backyard skunk - McSweeney follows each inspiration to the point of exhaustion and makes it through each difficult day.

      In frank, mesmeric lyrics, Death Styles navigates the opposing forces of survival and grief, finding a way to press against death''s interface, to step the wrong way out of the grave.

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