Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl: Poems

Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl is a groundbreaking collection of poems that shatter the traditional notion of the still life.

With invention and irreverence, Diane Seuss invites us into a dark emblem of femininity, violence, and the viewer's own troubled gaze.

The book takes its title from Rembrandt's painting, presented across the collection in pieces - details that hide more than they reveal until assembled into a whole.

These poems escape gilded frames and overturn traditional representations of gender, class, and luxury, inviting in the alienated, washed-up, ugly, and freakish - the overlooked many of us who might more often stand in a Walmart parking lot than before the canvases of Pollock, O'Keeffe, and Rothko.

With precision and profound empathy, this extraordinary gallery of lives in shards shows us that "our memories are local, acute, and unrelenting." Don't miss out on this marvelous, complex, attractive, frightening book - read more to learn why Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl is a must-read.