Grounded in protest and solidarity, Subhaga Crystal Bacon's Isabella Gardner Award-winning Transitory is a collection of elegies memorializing 46 transgender and gender-nonconforming people murdered in the US and Puerto Rico in 2020.
Epistolary in nature, these commemorative poems are "gleaned sketches" attempting to reconstruct lives and deaths from the typically scarce information made available on the internet. Interspersed with the elegies are personal explorations of gender identities and sexualities from a Queer elder who has lived through the post-Stonewall years of sexual liberation, the second wave of feminism, and the recent rapid increases in awareness about gender and sexualities met almost equally with anti-trans and anti-Queer violence.
Seen through the lenses of whiteness and privilege from the last quarter of a lifetime, these poems navigate the desire to be at home in our bodies, to be loved and desired without danger, and most of all to live free, healthy, and welcome in the world we inhabit.
| ISBN: | 9781950774968 |
| Publication date: | 28th December 2023 |
| Author: | Subhaga Crystal Bacon |
| Publisher: | BOA Editions an imprint of BOA Editions Ltd. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 94 pages |
| Series: | American Poets Continuum Series |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: poetry and poets Gender studies: ‘trans’, transgender people and gender variance |
Grounded in protest and solidarity, Subhaga Crystal Bacon's Isabella Gardner Award-winning Transitory is a collection of elegies memorializing 46 transgender and gender-nonconforming people murdered in the US and Puerto Rico in 2020. Epistolary in nature, these commemorative poems are "gleaned sketches" attempting to reconstruct lives and deaths from the typically scarce information made available on the internet. Interspersed with the elegies are personal explorations of gender identities and sexualities from a Queer elder who has lived through the post-Stonewall years of sexual liberation, the second wave of feminism, and the recent rapid increases in awareness about gender and sexualities met almost equally with anti-trans and anti-Queer violence. Seen through the lenses of whiteness and privilege from the last quarter of a lifetime, these poems navigate the desire to be at home in our bodies, to be loved and desired without danger, and most of all to live free, healthy, and welcome in the world we inhabit.
Transitory features in the following genres: Literary studies: poetry and poets, Gender studies: ‘trans’, transgender people and gender variance
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Transitory was written by Subhaga Crystal Bacon and published by BOA Editions an imprint of BOA Editions Ltd.
Transitory has 94 pages
Yes it is part of American Poets Continuum Series series
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