Portrait of My Body as a Crime I'm Still Committing

By Topaz Winters

Portrait of My Body as a Crime I'm Still Committing is an award-winning, omnivorous collection of poetry residing in the space between confessional & manifesto. Portrait is interested in the immediacy of language; in girlhood as wolfhood; in the cartography of illness; in fractures through the dark; in bodies, human & water alike. Luminous, tender, & unflinching, Portrait cuts straight to the marrow. To all those whose bodies have been more bruise than human--who feel so loudly the sky turns black in fear--this book is for you.

Portrait of My Body as a Crime I'm Still Committing was chosen as a finalist in the 2018 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize by Singapore Unbound, & in the 2018 Broken River Prize by Platypus Press. This collection contains the poems "Guidebook for Wild Things Wishing to Be Tamed", "Self-Diagnosis", "Trigger", "For H", "But First, the Stomach", "New York City Probably Has an Anxiety Disorder", "Portrait of My Body as a Crime I'm Still Committing", "Flood Season", "Lightning / Hunger", "If the Body Is an Artefact", "Infernal / Inferno", "When My First Boyfriend Learned I Was on Anti-Psychotics, He Laughed & Told Me He Always Suspected I Was Crazier Than I Let On", "Alternate Names for Gay Girls", "Quell", "On the First Day, God Killed Himself", "Mealtime", "The Night You Are Diagnosed", "Still", "Serenade to Surrender", "Lone / Pack", "High Specific Heat", "Panic Attack as Airplane Departure Time", "Dream Sequence", "Pandora", "Insomnia", "Event Horizon", "50 Words for Snow", "This Is a Story About Mourning", "Healing Is", "July", "Call Me Before You Leave Again", & "Hands".

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1733881603
• ISBN13: 9781733881609
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Topaz Winters
• Length: 74 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.3" x 8.0"