Icarus: Anthropology of Addiction

Praise for Icarus: Anthropology of Addiction “Cavanaugh’s poems are smart and thoughtful as she muses on the myth of Icarus and who might be at fault for his fateful flight. Who is to blame for his addiction or any obsession? Maybe everyone is—or no one. Using language that is luscious, sonorous and precise, Cavanaugh employs all her poetry wiles to lure readers into her labyrinth. There is more than “the occasional buzz of possibility’ in these poems.”  —Karla Huston, Wisconsin Poet Laureate 2017-2018, author of Grief Bone and A Theory of Lipstick