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Deep, well written poetry. Could be triggering for a SA survivor.
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Easily one of my favorite collections this year. Arresting, painful, beautiful work about disability and transness. So many poems and lines jumped off the page and buried themselves in my brain. Cannot recommend this enough.
"the best daughter I could be was a son."
"woman was taught to me a language of subtraction."
"my mother marries an alcoholic and gives birth to kindling. this is to say, my father calls his child a f***** and watches them burn."
"the best daughter I could be was a son."
"woman was taught to me a language of subtraction."
"my mother marries an alcoholic and gives birth to kindling. this is to say, my father calls his child a f***** and watches them burn."
I received an ARC copy of this book from Edelweiss
Am I the serpent-headed girl? Or her endless
reflection? Or the winged mare burst
forth from her blood? Child of slaughter.
Wound from the mouth of a wound.
I probably should have waited until a bit closer to publication to read this one but I was in the mood for it and poetry is generally so hit or miss for me that I figured I should go ahead and jump on it and ended up really loving it! It reminded me a lot of The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One except it has a more narrow focus on the experience of trans and disabled women. Would definitely recommend this to people like me who struggle to find poetry they enjoy as it's written in a more modern prose-poetry style that I personally find easier to absorb and relate to.
Am I the serpent-headed girl? Or her endless
reflection? Or the winged mare burst
forth from her blood? Child of slaughter.
Wound from the mouth of a wound.
I probably should have waited until a bit closer to publication to read this one but I was in the mood for it and poetry is generally so hit or miss for me that I figured I should go ahead and jump on it and ended up really loving it! It reminded me a lot of The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One except it has a more narrow focus on the experience of trans and disabled women. Would definitely recommend this to people like me who struggle to find poetry they enjoy as it's written in a more modern prose-poetry style that I personally find easier to absorb and relate to.
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Such a magnificently woven book of poetry-- definitely a book I can tell I'm going to want to reread again and again!
An excellent debut exploring trans identity and disability with heartbreaking rigour.