Our Hands Hold Violence

A NATIONAL POETRY SERIES WINNER SELECTED AND WITH A FOREWORD BY BRENDA HILLMAN A collection of poems that explores rural Missouri, violence, queer desire / intimacy, addiction, familial and wildlife relationships Through encounters with the everyday beauty and brutality so much a part of rural and urban Missouri, Our Hands Hold Violence explores what it means to experience and/or perpetuate small and significant acts of violence, toward others and the self. What does it mean to hunt (be hunted),