Sacrificial Steel

<h3 class=ql-align-center><strong>Cate McGowan's full-length poetry collection <em>Sacrificial Steel </em>uses art history and complex musical poetic lines and forms to explore the biggest question we have as humans: what does it all mean?</strong></h3><p></p><p>McGowan utilizes <strong>form precision braiding</strong> and <strong>sound </strong>to capture the essence of <strong>contemporary lyric poetry</strong>.</p><p></p><p>This collection is both <strong>tightly structured</strong> and <strong>expansive</strong> covering subjects both <strong>personal</strong> (like <strong>grief</strong> and <strong>marriage</strong>) and political (<strong>American politics</strong> and <strong>ecological concerns</strong>). It also contains many <strong>ekphrastic poems. </strong></p><p></p><p>McGowan's voice is singular in the way it blends <strong>research</strong> and the <strong>vernacular.</strong> These poems are full of <strong>feminist</strong> wisdom and humor but ultimately explore the nature of existence in a declining world.</p><p></p><p>This book captures <strong>place</strong> well with a particular focus on the <strong>South</strong> and <strong>Florida</strong>. In this collection nature and the animal world are juxtaposed with human endeavors and frailty.</p><p><em>Sacrificial Steel </em>winner of <em>Driftwood Press's </em>Editors' Pick Prize<em> </em>is about what humanity builds and what it destroys. It is for fans of lyric poetry art and music and for anyone trying to find meaning in the chaos of history.</p>