YesYes Books, paperback
Publication Date: March 12, 2024
Publisher Marketing: The poems in Scavenger trace the progression of an abusive relationship, exposing moments of brutality and brief, quiet tenderness. Scavenger follows a woman through violence, self-doubt, and eventual miscarriage as she seeks slivers of safety and solidarity within nature, myth, and the memory of her younger self. Against fluctuating landscapes of domesticity, skyscrapers, and stone bluffs—Jessica Lynn Suchon's poems offer varied nuances of survival as they also interrogate the ways in which one person's violence can spill out into an entire life.
