Sundress Publications announces the upcoming release of Dani Janae’s Hound Triptych. Her debut poetry collection, Hound Triptych is a raw exploration of the intricacies of being an adoptee, the accompanying grief, and the destruction and rebuilding of the self through girlhood and into womanhood. This collection is a candid journey through the emotional landscape of abandonment and the human need for belonging; this is poetry that reaches into your chest and tells your heart, Listen. Feel.
The poems mix gritty darkness with captivating imagery—the continuity of the ouroboros, cyclical and ruinous, the mouth devouring its own body; hair as a living entity, its knots growing into mammals that speak; a daughter’s quiet, intrinsic love for her mother, “prized in the marrow, rich and pearlescent.” Coupled with a wider scrutiny of the capitalization of adoption, Janae provides a perspective both personal and wide. Hound Triptych is an experience in the richness of the lyrical and an invitation to gaze into the unfettered chaos of the psyche and the heart and sit with them, unflinching.
K. Iver, author of Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco, writes that “Janae’s generosity of narrative, line, and varied forms [make for] an expansive, gorgeous debut, one I’ll be thinking about for a long time.”
You can purchase your copy on the Sundress website.
Dani Janae is a Black lesbian poet and journalist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work has been published by Longleaf Review, SWWIM, RHINO Poetry, South Florida Poetry Journal, Vice, and Refinery29, among others. She posts on Substack at “No Skips,” “Fig Widow,” and “Ask a Queer Doctor,” and she can be found at https://danijanae.com/.
