Past Lives, Future Bodies

By: Chang, Kristin

2019 Lambda Literary Award finalist for Lesbian Poetry. In her debut short collection, poet Kristin Chang bursts onto the page and into our consciousness like a dazzling, dizzying uproar: "I suck / until my teeth riot / with rot & I have nothing / left in my mouth to keep / quiet." Quiet Chang's speakers are not. In these nineteen poems, the body is personal and communal, hunter and hunted: "My mother says / women who sleep with women / are redundant: the body symmetrical / to its crime. Between your knees / I mistake need for belief / in a father figure: once, we renamed / our fathers by burning them / out of our bodies, smoking the sky / into meat."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625578717
• ISBN13: 9781625578716
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Black Lawrence Press
• Length: 62 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.2"