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by Chloe Bliss Snyder
publication date: November 1, 2026
(pre-orders will ship slightly prior to November 1)
perfect bound trade paperback
9 x 6 inches, 79 pages
ISBN 978-1-942723-22-6
The poems in Chloe Bliss Snyder's debut collection are like entries in a modern bestiary. Fraught with danger, desire, and mysterious mating season dances, the verses of The Panther and Other Poems are animated by lyric and erotic intensity. By turns playful and sincere, self-conscious and self-abandoning, these poems, in love with love, in love with poetry, twirl dizzyingly around their centerpiece "The Panther," a masterful and evocative elaboration on the dream-vision tradition.
Praise for The Panther and Other Poems
“Like Eros, these lyrics flirt and fling with exuberant desire, aching across lines and the gaps between rhymes and near rhymes; a lover reached for, yearned for as the verse turns over. If Snyder is a fool for love, she is a master-mistress of the lyric form, stretching it into a breathless performance of hope and joy, denial and frustration. These poems swoon with Sappho and revel like Herrick; an offering to her gods Venus and Apollo. The panther will thrill your heart as it rips it out.”
—Martin Corless-Smith, author of Golden Satellite Debris
by Chloe Bliss Snyder
publication date: November 1, 2026
(pre-orders will ship slightly prior to November 1)
perfect bound trade paperback
9 x 6 inches, 79 pages
ISBN 978-1-942723-22-6
The poems in Chloe Bliss Snyder's debut collection are like entries in a modern bestiary. Fraught with danger, desire, and mysterious mating season dances, the verses of The Panther and Other Poems are animated by lyric and erotic intensity. By turns playful and sincere, self-conscious and self-abandoning, these poems, in love with love, in love with poetry, twirl dizzyingly around their centerpiece "The Panther," a masterful and evocative elaboration on the dream-vision tradition.
Praise for The Panther and Other Poems
“Like Eros, these lyrics flirt and fling with exuberant desire, aching across lines and the gaps between rhymes and near rhymes; a lover reached for, yearned for as the verse turns over. If Snyder is a fool for love, she is a master-mistress of the lyric form, stretching it into a breathless performance of hope and joy, denial and frustration. These poems swoon with Sappho and revel like Herrick; an offering to her gods Venus and Apollo. The panther will thrill your heart as it rips it out.”
—Martin Corless-Smith, author of Golden Satellite Debris