<p>The beauty and danger of an isolated family compound the corruption that privilege can bring an extensive burn injury that interrupts a girl's life and the many predators who swoop in when the scarred woman is loosed again into the world-all of this is woven throughout <em>Sadness of the Apex Predator</em> a collection of poems that studies both the way Sapiens feed on one another and also the redemption our hungers can bring.&nbsp;</p>