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Amazing, beautiful, hilarious, wrenching.Highlights for me were:"Six Women I'm Not: meditations on having sex with straight men who don't know you're trans whilst pretending to be a literary character"--particularly "Penelope", as if a Romantic painting came to life with modern wit."California Encomia" cycle (do six poems make a cycle?). The narrative feature of the poetry in these poems, and throughout, is just so engaging. Is roadtrip poetry a thing? Why not. And the wonderfully captured perso...
I'm pretty much always game for queer/trans writing so this was no exception.
Trans self-making is fraught with cis people’s associations of deception and the desire they project onto us: our transexual prime directive to leave the past behind and enter an unrippled state of always-having been, by any means necessary.But we each have at least one self, and of course we shape them. Cat Fitzpatrick’s funny, cutting, eminently-readable and minutely-crafted poems in Glamourpuss set out to examine how. The emotional, though not always chronological, arc of the book moves from
I have no real insight into poetry, and have read very little, but ever since I got to listen to Cat read from her poems in a book group, I was stoked. Such awesome verse, such style and grace. I love these poems when they're pissed off, English as fuck, and raw. Cat shines a light on trans life in a way few have. Thank you.
I've been trying to pick up books that will give a story I would otherwise not have access to. As a very white, very straight woman this book of poetry seemed like a right choice. It is a very personal book. I could even recognize myself in some passages but I enjoyed most educating myself on the differences. I loved the honest words, the bluntness of it. Cat isn't hiding her experience, it's all out on the table.
I read this all in one sitting, very readable poetry. It totally swept me along with it, raw and honest. I was lucky enough to see Cat perform on the Never Mind the Hormones tour and her energy is incredible. I prefer watching her perform to reading her work BUT it's good work and I am excited to read more of her stuff.
