Subscribe to Read | $0.00
Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!
Quick and Easy Sign Up!
It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.
Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!
Quick and Easy Sign Up!
It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.
Read Anywhere and on Any Device!
Rate this book!
Write a review?
A diverse collection on bodies, politics, poetry, poetics, and being. The author pictures create an interesting play on text/image that may be worth digging into (I won't, here) and the poetics statements may have been my favorite pieces in here; the discussion of what it is to live pushing the boundaries, the poesis of acts and language, the reasons writers write. Huge shout-out to everyone who created space at Naropa University (my MFA alma mater): kari edwards, CAConrad, Eileen Myles, Dawn Lu...
EVERYONE should read this book. I've been looking for poetry from trans authors for SO long, and this collection was everything I hoped to find and then some.
811.608 T859 2013
I'm very proud of what we've created here. Collaboration and community. What else is there?
So many amazing poets to discover between these pages. Yes, yours truly, but many, many more! Don't miss out. There's something here for every taste in poetry. The poetics statements lend clarity to each poet's writing. This is also a groundbreaking anthology, since there's never been another like it of trans and genderqueer poets. Yet the poems are not simply identity driven. There are a lot of treasures here. Check this book out!
Have read this many times now!
This anthology took a long time to get through but I'm glad I actually read it cover to cover. Especially appreciate the format of having poetry + poetics statements, and some of the poems/artists in here are unforgettable.
I finally started reading it! This is a hard-hitting book. I was reading it at bedtime but honestly this book needs lots of time to digest and ponder over. I’ll be taking a break for now and coming back to it later.
you have to read this. end of story.one of the things i really appreciate about this anthology is how each writer/poet has published a poetics statement alongside their poems. brilliant.
Like most anthologies there will be some poets you love and some that you don't. I found the poets statements and the poetry overly academic. I couldn't read them. I found that there was a higher number of masculine voices which I find happens so often in academic settings. I was disappointed that in the whole anthology there were only two poets who I wanted to read more of their work. For the most part the style of the poetry was too disjointed for my personal taste. Although definitely an ambi...
It is a phenomenal anthology with unique voices, challenging content and beautiful poetics.
This is a fantastic and necessary collection of talented poets collected around a common/similar identity of being trans* and/or genderqueer. The poems collected here are outstanding, and the poetics statements add so much to the collection. I am so deeply moved by this book and kicking myself that I was too busy to submit when there was an open call.I'm so glad this substantial anthology is in the world. I can't wait to share it and teach it.
I wanted to LOVE this book, honestly. I was so excited to see a collection of trans and genderqueer poetry. But the 500+ pages were disappointing. I understand that the editor wanted to show a variety of poets and poetry, but I really feel this collection could have been edited down. Each poet has three or four pages dedicated to them and a small bio. The way it's laid out (and the pure size of the book) makes it difficult to become immersed in the poems. I felt like it was a 'let's include ever...
Every time I read from this anthology I am awed and somehow changed. So very grateful for the poems and discussion therein.
As a trans and genderqueer poet myself, I had a deeply transformative experience reading this book. As I read it for the first of what I'm sure will be many, many times, I felt my way around in it, exploring the topography of its contents as they shifted things inside of me in all different directions. The copy I read was purchased by my local public library at my request, but I still think I'll have to eventually buy my own copy; it's one I'll want to have near me all the time.
Massive book with massive importance. T.C. Tolbert and Trace Peterson created something where nothing had existed - an anthology of poetic and critical thought from genderqueer and trans authors. The depth and breadth of work is stunning, engaging more styles and forms and genres of poetry than many anthologies of comparable or greater length. Nearly every poet in the book provides a poetic statement, detailing their creative and critical processes and faculties, all containing powerful and thou...
Did not originally read this through in order. Skipped around to some poets I know and then read others. Fascinated as much by the poetics statements as the poems themselves. Wonderful collection of often powerful poems. Reading this freed me of some of the constraints I had as a poet myself. I had felt a pull to write a certain way, on certain themes, but the wide variety of styles and subjects keeps me coming back to re-read this anthology often.
Like all anthologies - some good, some not as good, and some amazing.
