PATRICIA

GRISAFI

Black and white photo of a young woman with long hair resting her arms on a metal railing, gazing off to the side with a contemplative expression.

Patricia Grisafi, PhD, is a freelance culture writer and essayist. She is the author of Breaking Down Plath (Jossey-Bass), a literary companion on Sylvia Plath for middle and high school students. She lives in New York City with her husband, two children, and two rescue dogs. This is her first poetry collection.

Book cover titled 'Animal' by Patricia Grisafi. Features a classical-style painting of a woman with flowing hair, draped in clothing, with a snake wrapped around her arm, set against a dark background.

ANIMAL

Animal explores the depths of self-reflection through a coalescence of opposing forces, a confessional display of raw tenderness that blooms through a violent wilderness. These poems are open wounds that unveil memories & their ghosts, offering gifts of hard won wisdom and visceral clarity to carry into the present. In this debut collection, Grisafi unveils beauty found in the darkest niches of the self & reveals a reclamation of the animal that howls within us.

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This is where the skin hisses, Song on the underbelly of an arm. A fine fruit blooms slowly, carved For lack of a lovelier surface Here where everything stirs.

This is where the skin hisses, Song on the underbelly of an arm. A fine fruit blooms slowly, carved For lack of a lovelier surface Here where everything stirs.