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Instructions for Killing the Jackal reinvigorates the poetic tradition of myth-making using a combination of Southern folklore, urban legend, and Greek mythology.

“ Poems in Erica Wright’ s virtuosic new collection [… ] have an almost subliminal force. We read them with feline attention, hungering after each line’ s fugitive beauty. These poems capture the quicksilver of inspiration, and hold it steady, the way a hummingbird seems motionless sipping from the bud.” – Gregory Pardlo