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“I’ve bled for years and I’m still bleeding.” In The Plagiarist, a friendship destroyed by desire and jealousy is a wound that won’t heal. Ego undermined by rival, “the oldest story. Ho hum,” as Schrader describes it, is anything but in these fierce sonnets, a form so taut it threatens to snap. In the battle, an exploration of all points tender. As for the last person standing? There may be no better revenge than the tip of a well-sharpened pen: “Namaste, you motherfucker.”
—Erin Malone, author of Hover
In The Plagiarist, “The season turns/ unkind. The brittle kindling burns and burns.” These sonnets aren’t sweet. Visceral, instead: shattered, caught up—these poems pursue wreckage as a means rather than an end, breaking open the sonnet form while leaning on rhyme’s phantom limb: “you are always there/ beneath the surface of my mind: splinter/ just beyond the tweezer’s reach.”
—Megan Snyder-Camp, author of The Gunnywolf and Wintering
The Plagiarist
by Amy Schrader
$14.99, paper
978-1-63534-165-2
2017
Amy Schrader is the author of The Situation & What Crosses It (MoonPath Press, 2014). She has an M.F.A in Poetry from the University of Washington; her poems can be found in Bone Bouquet, Rattle, Unsplendid, The Monarch Review, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. She lives in Seattle, where she works at the University of Washington as an accountant.
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