Bloodletting a Butterfly

Bear witness to a world reshaped by trauma disfigured by grief and strangely illuminated by the grotesque poetry of survival.Told in raw unflinching verse and framed by a chilling interview-style prologue these poems don''t seek resolution or redemption. Instead they offer something rarer: truth without anesthesia. Hood''s language is evocative and uncompromising at times surreal at times starkly literal always purposeful. Whether imagining a ferryman ferrying infants into fog or cataloging the dismantling of his own senses Hood never shies from the horror that shaped him-or from the beauty he still aches to protect.This is not a book for the faint of heart. It is for those brave enough to stand at the edge of unspeakable loss and listen. Because somewhere inside the carnage there is still a heartbeat.