Pig: Poems

From the brilliantly talented National Poetry Series and James Laughlin Award winner comes a third collection of poems that uses the humble pig as a lens to explore the body, faith, desire, and power. This imaginative and singular poetry collection interrogates the broadest ideas surrounding the humble pig?farm animal, men/masculinity, police and state violence, desire, queerness, global food systems, religion/Judaism and law?to reimagine various chaotic histories of the body, faith, ecology, desire, hygiene, and power. Sam Sax draws on autobiography and history to create poems that explore topics ranging from drag queens and Miss Piggy to pig farming and hog lagoons. Collectively, these poems, borne of Sax?s obsession, offer a varied picture of what it means to be a human being. Delivered in a variety of forms, infused with humor, grace, sadness, and anger, Pig is a wholly unique collection from a virtuosic and original poet.

Author: Sam Sax

Publisher: Scribner

Publication Date: Sep 19, 2023

Number of Pages: 112 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 166801999X

ISBN-13: 9781668019993