It is the heart of the man who was her loverĪnd it is less damaged than the heart inside her chest. There is the one she keeps in her bureau-īurnt about the edges and stinking of salt. Pulling from the biographical accounts of these amazing authors, these poems beautifully examine the nature of art and creation, reading and consumption, and how monsters are really reflections of ourselves. Its journey carries it across continents and time, visiting other female authors throughout the decades - Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Octavia Butler, and others. Abandoned and alone after Shelley’s death, the monster searches for a mother to fill her place. In Octavia Cade's brilliant collection of poetry Mary Shelley Makes a Monster (Aqueduct Press, 2019), the famous author of Frankenstein crafts a creature out of ink, mirrors, and the remnants of her own heartbreak and sorrow.
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