About the Book

This Is How They Teach You How to Want It...The Slaughter: A Field Guide for the Hunted & the Hunter, The Dead-Alive, The Live-Dead Ones, The... is in direct communication with the ancient mythology of the wild hunt — Wilde Jagd , Wild Hunt or Chase in German — in which supernatural/ghost riders are pursuing a target. With elements that are poetic and prosaic infused with some parts field guide, some parts instruction and notes of the cautionary, this work poses big questions that erode the boundary between ourselves within our human skin suits and the natural world. How does identity — as animal or as human, within skin inheritance, within human intimacy, as gendered bodies, as predator or as prey — determine how and why we participate in the wild hunt? What happens when the hunter and the hunted change places? And is the most dangerous and lethal kind of slaughter in fact bloodless? This Is How They Teach You How to Want It...The Slaughter engages with a horror aesthetic that is sometimes as nuanced as the reminder of how we all witnessed Carrie Bradshaw telling Mr. Big to kill her over and over again in a Sex and the City episode to the raw details of what happens when one is caught by the hunter.
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