Pit — The Libretti is the text volume of Snakeskin, the album by Margot White. The poems are the record's libretti, and several are performed as spoken word over the album's instrumentals.
This collection of poetry offers a simple warning. "Don't go down into the cellar / you'll never make it out of there." Much like Persephone, Inanna, Alice, Bluebeard's wife, or Psyche, the reader goes down, regardless. In forty-four poems across five sections, Cellar, Anniversary, Mirror, Virgin Suicides, and She Likes the Sun and Grass, Margot White writes of young womanhood, trauma, betrayal, alchemy and reclamation through the unflinching lens of curiosity. The book holds both the cellar and the mirror. Whoever makes the descent will return changed, and may very well carry up something worth the journey.
This edition is the official pre-save of the single "Cruelest Pill" by Margot White, releasing 13 November 2026.
Margot White is a recording artist and poet. Margot White won the Balcones Poetry Prize and has published poems in The Gentian, MOOF Magazine and Texas Women's Quarterly.
Details
- Publication Date
- Sep 23, 2026
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781291514384
- Category
- Poetry
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- By (artist): Margot White
Specifications
- Pages
- 64
- Binding Type
- Paperback Perfect Bound
- Interior Color
- Black & White
- Dimensions
- Digest (5.5 x 8.5 in / 140 x 216 mm)