Robin Blackburn McBride on Beast Body Epic

Image description: A hand holds up. a book with a red and white cover, a black visual poem in the centre and the text: Beast Body Epic / Amanda Earl in front of a blurred outdoor scene of dark woods. Photo by Robin Blackburn McBride

Thank you to Ottawa-based author Robin Blackburn McBride for her great words about Beast Body Epic. Robin writes

“Based on the poet’s lived experience, Amanda Earl’s BEAST BODY EPIC chronicles a 2009 health crisis that brings the speaker to the edge of death. The work is visceral and compelling. Each section, a stage of physical and emotional struggle, takes on a different form and tone—gruesome, harrowing, lush.

I admire Earl’s willingness to be vulnerable and her highly creative approach. I especially love how her complex story of survival moves into the realm of dream and mythic reality.”

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