Taking to Water - Jennifer Conlon

A debut collection of poems that question gender and embrace queerness through the natural world of North Carolina.  A tender imagining and devastating reckoning, Jennifer Conlon’s debut presents a poetry collection of gender questioning, concerned with the survival of trans and nonbinary kids who live in places that do not allow them to thrive. The speaker of these poems wrestles with and envisions a life beyond their traumatic childhood as a genderqueer child in a small Southern Bible Belt town.... Zobrazit více