Carrion

Wes Jamison is the author of the chapbook and Melancholia (Essay Press, 2016) and is a noted author in Best American Essays. They earned an MFA in nonfiction from Columbia College Chicago and a PhD in English from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. They currently teach at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Featured in the Shelf Unbound list of 2024 Indie Summer Reads“Dark oracles always speak with serpent tongues, forked to hold multiple truths. I reveled in this book, cast among ruin and shadow but finding fierce life there. Beneath hard surfaces deep human passion flares. What myth tore asunder language tries to stitch back together, prose so phosphorescent it assumes the aspect of poetry.”—Kazim Ali, author of Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water“To dare to sink into darkness, to dare to stare straight into the sun, to dare to build a structure that will take one far from fear but also bliss—these are the ways in which Wes Jamison inscribes a body and soul into being. With deep philosophical plunges and transformative flights of linguistic consideration and fancy, Carrion soars right into the sun. In Jamison's insightful prose, they take us so close to disaster that we hear the singe and feel the burn.”—Jenny Boully, author of Betwixt-And-Between“In a tangle of connective tissue, Jamison enacts a kind of spellcasting, a spoken worm that burrows in the mind. It’s a collection that gives pause, makes you stop to fixate on the dead raven at sidewalk’s edge. You know this body is Other and poison, but you can’t help the twitch in your fingers, that pull that makes you want to reach out and touch it. Spread it open. Divine what’s inside."—Kym Cunningham, author of Difficulty Swallowing and new mythologies