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In this special spooky Halloween episode, we talk about Anna Journey's terrifying and haunting poem "Mercy." We consider serial killers and Brett Kavanaugh, squirrel meat and patriarchal violence, and the ghoulish openness of the grotesque. Content Warning: Sexual Violence. Read the poem below. More on Journey: http://annajourney.com/ Check out Journey’s collection, Vulgar Remedies, where this poem comes from: https://lsupress.org/books/detail/vulgar-remedies/ Check out her other books here: http://annajourney.com/books/ Check out the referenced article by Journey: https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Earn+the+Vomit:+employing+the+Grotesque+in+contemporary+Poetry.-a0380527469 Find us on facebook at: facebook.com/closetalking
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You can always send us an e-mail with thoughts on this or any of our previous podcasts, as well as suggestions for future shows, at closetalkingpoetry@gmail.com. Mercy by Anna Journey She spends the night with a man who once hunted deer, who ke