Fish Love: Poems by Bryanna Licciardi (PDF)

• Poetry
• 5” x 8” Perfectbound Trade Paperback
• Cream Paper, 112 Pages
• Paperback ISBN-13: 978-1-946580-50-4
• First Edition: July 30, 2024
• Press Page: acpbook.link/fish

In Fish Love, Bryanna Licciardi leans into her obsessive nature and twisted humor, offering readers a landscape of bizarre realism. From dark, familial narratives to imagined dates with serial killers, she eagerly distorts the line between love and loathing, self and other, fantasy and actuality. With a dreamlike quality and gut-punching lines, Licciardi guides readers through the stages of rage, hurt, laughter, and raw memory, ultimately ending her debut full-length poetry collection in the realm of hope among the most sinister of places—regret.

Content Warning: school bullying, othering, sexual predation, serial killers, death, menstruation, cannibalism of the dead, body image, sexual situations, eating disorders, physical and sexual violence, self-harm, parental discord, anxiety