the berry takes the shape of the bloom (eBook)

Andrea Bennett (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
44 Seiten
Talonbooks (Verlag)
978-1-77201-552-2 (ISBN)

Infos

the berry takes the shape of the bloom originated as a gesture towards optimism after loss and pain, difficulty and fear. It began as a linear narrative, offering a window into one trans person's life after they felt contented and secure. But in the end these poems, which capture particular moments in time, may recur in any given present: sometimes what surfaces is anxiety or anger, sometimes love or eagerness. Some poems bear witness; others hold grudges or shake free of them. Together, they entwine around enmeshed experiences of gender, family, trans pregnancy, abuse, fear, and becoming.Before blueberries grow, they grow a bloom that looks like a proto berry. The berry then takes the shape of the bloom that came before it. The berry displaces the bloom that came before it ... My mother bloomed and then I was a wave or a skateboard or a foraging deer. My mother bloomed and I did not displace her in the right way. Did I berry?

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.10.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Schlagworte: belonging • Community • fear • Gender • Hope • Loss • Love • Nonbinary • optimism • Poetry • social navigation • Transgender
• ISBN-10: 1-77201-552-0 / 1772015520
• ISBN-13: 978-1-77201-552-2 / 9781772015522