A review by kpkulski
Cradleland of Parasites, by Sara Tantlinger

5.0

Gorgeous, heartbreaking, grim. This collection digs into the hopelessness of not only historic plagues, but from the perspective of the experience of being trapped within a plague stricken world. The memory of what life had been like before it melts into the boils, fevered flesh and loss... the loss of not only life, but innocence, youth and tomorrow. All told in harrowing yet always breathtaking verse. This is a collection to be savored, along with all the barbs of exquisite pain it brings.