Bottom Feeders
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A vibrant and gritty debut from poet Arielle Hebert, Bottom Feeders is a queer coming-of-age collection set in late 2000s Florida, during the height of the opioid epidemic. Here, overdoses, red tide blooms, and hurricanes are as much a part of growing up as fleeting teenage desires, beach parties, and prom. This is a landscape of glitter and grime, where young queer love is tested by the tides of addiction and recovery. The collection thrums with a sense of spectacle and surreality, accented by Sarasota's history as a circus town and Florida's deadly wildlife--alligators, needlefish, invasive snakes. The heat, humidity, and salt air of the Gulf become characters in their own right, as haunting as the love, grief, and loss found here. Despite the long shadows cast over these poems, there is beauty, friendship, chosen family, and hope in Bottom Feeders.
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Bottom Feeders
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Book Details
- Publisher:
- Black Lawrence Press
- ISBN:
- 9781625572196
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 82
- Authors:
- Arielle Hebert
- Published Date:
- 2026-06-16
- Language:
- English
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Recently, I heard Arielle Hebert on the podcast Poetry Off The Shelf (Episode: Hereafter Parties). Her conversation with host Helena de Groot captured my imagination–I knew within the first few minutes that I had to read Bottom Feeders.
These poems transport us to Sarasota, FL in the late 2000s—winter camp for the Ringling Bros. Circus, a snow-bird town rich in vacant mansions and cheap (legally prescribed) drugs. Hebert has a gift for narrative and her verse doesn't have a lazy line in it. I underlined so many passages when I started reading Bottom Feeders, I had to force myself to show restraint.