The Pact by Jennifer Militello Jo Brandon of a city overcome by

of a city overcome by an epidemic of weeping

they shift across states of matter and registers of language and voice

Translated by Abigail Parry and Serafina Vick

grace and erudition

The Pact by Jennifer Militello Jo Brandon of a city overcome byIn her newest collection, award winning poet and memoirist Jennifer Militello confronts obsession, intimacy, and abuse. Through love poems inspired by such disparate spaces as a British art museum and the reptile house of a local zoo, comparing a romantic affair to the religious cult at Jonestown and a mothers role to a Congolese power figure bristling with nails, The Pact offers an indictment against affection and a portent against zeal. This book