A review by emergencily
We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics by Andrea Abi-Karam, Kay Gabriel

5.0

• a stunning, massive collection of poetry in more shapes and forms than you could imagine (including mixed media poems, literary prose, excerpts from books like "stone butch blues," and a transcript of a sylvia rivera speech) by trans artists. there is so much raw emotion, bodily sensation, eroticism and style crammed into this collection that there will be something here for any reader
• bulk of the poetry is highly experimental and postmodern. presented in such a large quantity together, it was sometimes hard to get  through one after the other (but im also a less experienced poetry reader). overall, you should take reading this slowly and in small sessions over time so you can really savour each piece (imo)
• my one complaint: ofc, it must have been difficult to find a way to organize such an massive collection of pieces and authors (70+ authors?!), so i understand why they chose to go for alphabetical order.  but i do prefer when anthologies have more of a rhyme & reason to the order and presentation of pieces

""Poetry isn’t revolutionary practice; poetry provides a way to inhabit revolutionary practice, to ground ourselves in our relations to ourselves and each other, to think about an unevenly miserable world and to spit in its face. We believe that poetry can do things that theory can’t, that poetry leaps into what theory tends towards. We think that poetry conjoins and extends the interventions that trans people make into our lives and bodily presence in the world, which always have an aesthetic dimension. We assert that poetry should be an activity by and for everybody."