These excerpts are reprinted from Cass Donish’s collection, Your Dazzling Death, published by Knopf in 2024.
Read our interview with Cass Donish here.
Cass Donish is the author of the poetry collections Your Dazzling Death (Knopf, 2024); The Year of the Femme (University of Iowa Press, 2019), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize; and Beautyberry (Slope Editions, 2018). Their nonfiction chapbook, On the Mezzanine (Gold Line Press, 2019), was selected for publication by Maggie Nelson. Donish received an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and a PhD in English from the University of Missouri. With their late partner, the poet Kelly Caldwell, they founded The Spectacle.
