YOURS, CREATURE, Jackleg Press, 2023
“Cuello navigates themes of creation, violence, grief, transformation, and lineage. These are heart-wrenching missives that unfurl with exquisite monstrosities.” — Simone Muench
LIAR, Barrow Street, 2021
“A highly original vision, voice, concept, style, language and image all working together to produce a world inside our world. Filled with fire and violence, mystery and magic, the loneliness of laundromats, rented houses, suicide, cornfields, hunger, and ultimately a naked raw survival, ‘charred walls pulled back from the frame.’” — Dorianne Laux
HUNT, The Word Works, 2017
“What if, dear Reader, pursuit’s fierce law—to hunt what flees, to kill what is killable, to silence forever what cannot exactly speak for itself—could cast its dark line around itself and halt the maddened chase…What peace would then arise? Who would speak then in the ocean’s haunted reciprocities? One voice might say: “What you’ve done / to me you’ve done to you.” So speaks a hunted whale in Jessica Cuello’s deep dive into Melville’s waters.” — Dan Beachy-Quick
Pricking, Tiger Bark Press, 2016
“Eloquent clarity and precision combine with lyrical understatement to give Cuello’s poems a haunting resonance and make religious history and its consequence for women’s lives immediate, disturbing, and poignant.” — Janice Harrington
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