Domestic Calicos
(By Clay Hunt)
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Praise for Domestic Calicos:
“Clay Hunt’s Domestic Calicos is a collection of poetry addressing loss, generational addiction, and familial complexities.
Through the author’s utmost vulnerability and use of vivid detail and image, he retells stories of trauma and resilience. This poetry collection honors (and is for) the survivor in each of us.”
— Briana Muñoz, Author of Everything is Returned to the Soil (FlowerSong Press 2021)
“The distanced, matter-of-fact poetic voice
speaking through the poems in Clay Hunt’s
Domestic Calicos is the lifeline, the thread, the
container holding together this astonishing
collection of poems of family catastrophe
and human devastation. In this book, the
poetic speaker “howl[s] at the moon,” wishing
he could feel his mother’s love, “or even
remember to notice being loved.” Family
is freighted with wreckage and pain even
as the speaker of these poems takes tentative
steps to shoulder the past’s “delicate boulder.”
Even natural phenomena are viewed through
an overlay of domestic violence, as in the poem
“Fist Eclipse.” The collection’s title, Domestic Calicos,
conceals the feral nature of these family relationships
while highlighting the sense of detachment permeating
the collection. I’m grateful for this poet’s perspective
and for the care shown in examining the power,
bleakness, and tenderness of family.”
— Stella Beratlis, Author of Dust Bowl Venus”
