Yours Creature

<p><em style=color: rgba(94 94 94 1)>Yours Creature </em><span style=color: rgba(94 94 94 1)>is composed of epistolary poems in the voice of Mary Shelley. Often written as missives to her famous literary mother Wollstonecraft the poems address months years and her own monstrous creation as they contend with exile transience and desire. These poems ask us to imagine the physical elements of Shelley's existence in language that is both luminous and visceral. This is not a book that simply recreates a past but one that transcends time as it threads together the loss and violence that history has asked women to suppress. The poems recognize the unspoken pairing of scarcity and creation; they explore how the monstrous is born out of rejection. </span><em style=color: rgba(94 94 94 1)>Yours Creature </em><span style=color: rgba(94 94 94 1)>responds to a literary and historical narrative but the poems exist as lyric singing of the pleasure of creation and its transformative power. </span></p>