Grounded in protest and solidarity, Subhaga Crystal Bacon’s
Isabella Gardner Award-winning Transitory is a collection of
elegies memorializing 46 transgender and gender-nonconforming
people murdered in the US and Puerto Rico in 2020. Epistolary
in nature, these commemorative poems are “gleaned sketches”
attempting to reconstruct lives and deaths from the typically
scarce information made available on the internet. Interspersed
with the elegies are personal explorations of gender identities and
sexualities from a Queer elder who has lived through the
post-Stonewall years of sexual liberation, the second wave of
feminism, and the recent rapid increases in awareness about gender
and sexualities met almost equally with anti-trans and anti-Queer
violence. Seen through the lenses of whiteness and privilege
from the last quarter of a lifetime, these poems navigate the
desire to be at home in our bodies, to be loved and desired without
danger, and most of all to live free, healthy, and welcome in the
world we inhabit.
General
Imprint: |
B O a Editions, Limited
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
American Poets Continuum |
Release date: |
December 2023 |
Authors: |
Subhaga Crystal Bacon
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Dimensions: |
152 x 228mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
104 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-950774-96-8 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-950774-96-1 |
Barcode: |
9781950774968 |
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