Kiara Nicole Letcher's Oxblood is an exquisite indulgence, an unfettered plunge into the chaos and beauty of unmitigated desire. These poems are lush, violent, intoxicating, seductive, and - perhaps above all else - honest. This book is as lawless and turbulent as it is lavish and sensual. Upon immersion in Oxblood's ardent world of hunger and fervor, even the most austere and self-possessed reader encounters delicious sensations of surrender. This vortex of craving, conflict, and scarlet-stained cogitation spares no one.