Wild Thing
Delia Marchetti
49 pages. Tape-bound.
Delia Marchetti’s Wild Thing is the chronicle of accident and recovery, of loss and healing. But the beauty of Marchetti’s complex, heartbreaking narrative is how these terms shift, disappear, and blur until indistinguishable. The accident is a moment. The recovery is the trauma. The loss is recovered. The recovery heals someone who hadn’t existed before. And maybe you, too. Wild Thing is that kind of truth. The kind you want to remember more than you know you can.
About the Author
In 2011, Delia Marchetti was shortlisted for the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, and her verse novel We Take Me Apart was named 2nd finalist for the Asian American Literary Award for Poetry. In 2012, YesYes Books released the 3-author volume Frequencies, which includes her short fiction collection “Lost July.” In 2014, Ampersand Books is slated to reprint We Take Me Apart in anticipation of the release of its prequel Remember Us and its sequel Desire: A Haunting. Delia is a core faculty member of the Yale Writers’ Conference and is the Creative Director at The Lit Pub.
Read an excerpt.