Wolf and Pilot [Paperback]

Wolf and Pilot tells the story of four sistersElsianne, Matilda, Emaline and Aubriewho have run away from their witch-mother. Looming in corners, hiding in holes, living near people, the girls observe the detective on their case, their much-loved teacher, and the witch-mother from a near distance. Through shifting perspectives that fuse together in a collective voice, these poems are grounded in the eerie world of fairy tales and explore that world through a childlike, voyeuristic eye.

Poems can weave together a dark, quirky fairy taleand these dothat blends childish passion and adult sensibility

FARRAH FIELD is the author of Rising and the chapbook Parents. She lives in Brooklyn where she co-hosts an event series called Yardmeter Editions, occasionally blogs at adultish.blogspot.com, and is co-owner of Berls Brooklyn Poetry Shop.

The Smartest Person in the Room Never Speaks We Left Before My Turn The Girls Bury Themselves for Two Weeks The Girls Gather Around While He Sleeps Not All Henrys Are Hucks or Hanks Mothers Children Dont Come When She Calls The Girls Approach the Fence Desperate Mothers Are Easy Lays Elsianne Celebrates Her Birthday Bedtime Stories Wanting to Train Pigmy Goats Emaline Develops an Attachment Maybe You Have More Than One Private Parts The Teacher Explains Urgency to the Detective The Detective Wonders If He Said Something Wrong Den Bomber Jacket The Girls Talk of Troilus Our Food Will Not Come from a Cigarette Company Are You a Wild Animal or a Baby Aubrie Steals the Key To Mother Talks to Herself Before Hunting Her Children Tall People Have Hurt Knees The Detective is Dismissed Human Hair Paintbrush The Girls Give Helen the Checking Account Blood Is Best When a Woman Is in Trouble Red Onion Paper The Witch Stands Beyond the Vapor Matilda Stays Up Late With No Questions to Ask Elsianne Walks Between Quiet Rooms Dark Thirty Will Come EarllÍ