How I Bend Into More

By Amanda Merpaw

Based on Tea Gerbeza's experience with scoliosis, How I Bend Into More re-articulates selfhood in the face of ableism and trauma. Meditating on pain, consent, and disability, this long poem builds a body both visually and linguistically, creating a multimodal space that forges Gerbeza's grammar of embodiment as an act of reclamation. Paper-quilled shapes represent the poet's body on the page; these shapes weave between lines of verse and with them the reclaimed disabled body is made. How I Bend Into More is a distinctive poetic debut that challenges ableist perceptions of normalcy, and centers ?the double architecture / of ( metamorphosis (.?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1990293875
• ISBN13: 9781990293870
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Anstruther Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 9.0"