Butcher IL Whatever the opposite of fooling

Whatever the opposite of fooling someone is

Beware the highway in [their] grace and the crowbar in her verse

Launching from a critical praxis into a praxis of being

What a gift this collection is to my Black soul

— Danez Smith

Butcher IL Whatever the opposite of foolingNatasha T. Miller, 2021 Butcher is a book about love & loss about being unapologetic and transparent in grief. Natasha finds an unexpected solace in the kitchen after losing her best friend and brother, Marcus. Here, using the cuts of the cow as a metaphor Miller, explores addiction, family & tragedy. Butcher takes the body of a cow and cleaves it into 5 parts: envisioning the cuts as relationship with family members and social forces. Her Mother the