Book Review: Judas Goat by Gabrielle Bates
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2 min readMar 7
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Gabrielle Bates’s Judas Goat is a stunning collection of forty poems that explores the complexities of intimate relationships. The book’s title animal serves as a metaphor for the themes that run throughout the collection: betrayal, forced obedience, and the violence inherent in young womanhood. Bates’s writing evoke vivid figures from scriptures, and domesticated animals that yearn for the wild. The collection is…
