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Violet Spurlock
“A crash course in 21st-century gender trouble, I have been waiting for a book like this forever, one that I could give to an ex-girlfriend, a secret crush, or a future self. Expansive, layered, unimpeachable, I sort of forgot poems could be like this–giddy, “prone to dizziness,” and yes, a little reckless, but mainly in the way that it imagines the ontological realness of having titties while shamelessly flirting with the dialectic.”–Lara Mimosa Montes
“This stunning debut collection by Violet Spurlock, a poet trained as a philosopher, is a trans ars poetica for our zeitgeist. Via a dazzling array of poetic forms, linguistic permutations, and neologisms Violet gives us an eye into the unresolved yet re-solving conundrum of being trans and a poet. Of transitioning but not transitioning yet. Waiting to transition. Having already transitioned and monitoring the size of one’s ‘titties’—so that rather than solutions, there is a way to live. A way towards life. A way of life. And the way is through poetry. ‘A word was made different in response to a need,’ she writes. And every word is spot on.” — Julian Talamantez Brolaski
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