Pricking - Jessica Cuello
In Pricking, Cuello smoothly erases the present moment and foregrounds the terrors of sectarian conflict and religious oppression. Esclarmonde de Foix, Jeanne d'Arc, and the unfortunate victims of witch hunts tell their truths in spare personas and lyrics. Eloquent clarity and precision combine with lyrical understatement to give Cuello's poems a haunting resonance and make religious history and its consequence for women's lives immediate, disturbing, and poignant.
—Janice Harrington
ISBN 978-0-9976305-1-02016$16.95Jessica Cuello’s most recent book of poems is Liar, selected by Dorianne Laux for the 2020 Barrow Street Book Prize. Her other books include Hunt (The Word Works 2017), winner of the 2016 Washington Prize, and three chapbooks: My Father’s Bargain (2015), By Fire (2013), and Curie (2011). Cuello was the recipient of The 2018 New Ohio Review Poetry Prize, The 2013 New Letters Poetry Prize, and a 2015 Saltonstall Writing Fellowship. In 2014 she was awarded The Decker Award from Hollins University for outstanding secondary teaching. She teaches French in Central NY and is a poetry editor for Tahoma Literary Review.
