How to Kill a Goat and Other Monsters by Saúl Hernández

How to Kill a Goat and Other Monsters

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How to Kill a Goat and Other Monsters by Saúl Hernández

University of Wisconsin Press

How to Kill a Goat and Other Monsters

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One is never sure who the monsters are in these poems, only that the narrator desperately doesn't want to be one. In his brilliant debut collection, Hernández explores grief, loss, identity, lineage, and belonging with grace, insight, and compassion.

These pages are infused with comfort, with desire, with heartache. Never absent is love, family. Hernández--hyperaware of American society's dismissal or hatred of people who look like him--writes with a refreshing confidence, a sure knowledge of who he is and where he comes from. Transcending any particular experience, this volume will continue to resonate with multiple readings.
Book Details
Publisher:
University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN:
9780299347840
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
122
Authors:
Saúl Hernández
Published Date:
2024-03-19
Language:
English
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About Saúl Hernández

An MFA graduate of the University of Texas at El Paso, Saúl Hernández won the 2025 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry for his debut collection, How to Kill a Goat & Other Monsters (University of Wisconsin Press, 2024). Raised in San Antonio to formerly undocumented parents, he won the 2021 Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize for At Night My Body Waits, judged by Victoria Chang. A year later, Joy Priest selected him for the Pleiades Prufer Poetry Prize. How to Kill a Goat & Other Monsters received a Texas Institute of Letters honor citation and a longlisting for the 2025 PEN Open Book Award. Hernández holds a 2025 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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