Pig: Poems
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This imaginative and singular poetry collection interrogates the broadest ideas surrounding the humble pig—farm animal, men/masculinity, police and state violence, desire, queerness, global food systems, religion/Judaism and law—to reimagine various chaotic histories of the body, faith, ecology, desire, hygiene, and power.
Sam Sax draws on autobiography and history to create poems that explore topics ranging from drag queens and Miss Piggy to pig farming and hog lagoons. Collectively, these poems, borne of Sax’s obsession, offer a varied picture of what it means to be a human being. Delivered in a variety of forms, infused with humor, grace, sadness, and anger, Pig is a wholly unique collection from a virtuosic and original poet.
George Monbiot
Sam Sax is a queer, jewish, writer and educator. They are the author of Madness, winner of The National Poetry Series and Bury It, winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. They’re the two-time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion with poems published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Granta and elsewhere. Sam has received fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, The Poetry Foundation, Yaddo, and is currently serving as a Lecturer in the ITALIC program at Stanford University. Their first novel Yr Dead will be published by McSweeney’s in 2024.
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Pig - George Monbiot
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"To read this collection of poems from Sam Sax is to locate the self inside the animal, the lyric i inside the word pig. Through otherwise occidental history and personal experience, Sax seductively tracks and uses porcine manifestations as correlatives for rendering desire, the desire to be known, and the systems of power that threaten such knowledge. These poems are animated, and reanimated, by a queer and queenly sonic intelligence that wrestles with itself and, ultimately, reaches for the hope required to persist. ‘all i. want is. to live,’ the speaker says. ‘& live.’ "
—Paul Tran, author of All the Flowers Kneeling
"In Pig, Sam Sax charts a complicated and haunting portrayal of body, home, desire, nation, and beast. Sax is able to weave humor throughout their invention, creating new lyrical and visual terrain for language, for connection, for feeling, and for possibility. This book invites you in and then winds through the labyrinths of the mind, body, and history. Sax’s words open and open, creating a space of examination of the pig in so many forms. As soon as I started reading the book I could not stop; these are poems that I could build a home in."
—Fatimah Asghar, author of When We Were Sisters
"There are few things I love more in writing than the absolute pleasure(s) of multiple considerations—a writer who holds an object in their hand and turns it over, tenderly, affording an audience a look at their obsession from several angles. Sam Sax takes this to heights that only they are capable of in Pig, dissecting shape, sound, multiple etymologies, histories. These are poems as rich in playfulness as they are in heartbreak. But they shine in their relentless curiosity. ‘grief is an animal’ is beautiful all on its own, but it is the questioning that follows—what kind of animal? let’s cut to the chase, after all."
—Hanif Abdurraqib, author of A Little Devil in America
In this deeply lyrical and experimental tour de force, Sax smashes and inspects every interchangeable lens of the pig, literal and figurative, to unflinchingly examine sexuality, grief, xenotransplantation, and the nature of language itself. Biblical and humorous, provocative and tragic, these poems evoke an absolute and necessary understanding of the very boundaries of our humanity.
—Richard Blanco, author of How to Love a Country
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Pig: Poems, by Sam Sax. Scribner. New York | London | Toronto | Sydney | New Delhi.The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say