Bitches of the Drought
Selected as a finalist in Sundress Publications’ 2016 Chapbook Competition
“Lauren Eggert-Crowe paints big, gorgeous, preternatural flora and fauna in this small luscious package of poetry. “Hair aflame,” there are pink claws and a narrator who claims, “I was a neon emergency.” Bitches of the Drought will burn a hole in your heart with the glow of these poems that deliciously straddle the line between delicate and fierce.”
-Wendy C. Ortiz, author of Bruja and Excavation
“Bitches of the Drought is Rocky for riot girls—all ecstatic anger and beat him to the punch puns. Los Angeles’ climate change induced, bone-dry summer is the perfect backdrop to an ambivalent, end of the road love story, with its final moments of sad magic like “a cupcake atop a gazelle,” “a panic of silk,” and “a slowed glacier.” A beautiful little book.”
-Kate Durbin, author of E! Entertainment and Hoarders