Bestiary: Poems 19 Cassandra and Luca are in

Cassandra and Luca are in love and ready to get married

Hear them thunder across the prairie

The winner of the National Book Critics Award for Poetry offers up a spirited collection of short lyrical essays

- Each spread features a classic book character illustrated as a cat + book titles and author names with hilarious cat puns

but perhaps entangled in one themselves…

Bestiary: Poems 19 Cassandra and Luca are inDonika Kelly's fierce debut collection, longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award and winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize I thought myself lion and serpent. Thought myself body enough for two, for we. Found comfort in never being lonely. What burst from my back, from my bones, what lived along the ridge from crown to crown, from mane to forked tongue beneath the skin. What clamor we made in the birthing. What hiss and rumble at the splitting,