Sympathetic Little Monster

By Cameron Awkward-Rich

Poetry. African American Studies. LGBT Studies. 2017 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Transgender Poetry. Through a combination of lyric, narrative, & fractured essay, SYMPATHETIC LITTLE MONSTER attempts to make a space & a shape for the little girl who haunts our cultural/ personal narratives about blackness & transmasculinity. As a trans coming-of-age text the work is intensely inward-focused, but it resists the imperative of linear autobiography. Instead, it uses the personal as a tool to explore what kind of thing a "self" is, its relation to trauma & objectification, & its capacity to be multiple.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1938900170
• ISBN13: 9781938900174
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Ricochet Editions
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 6.8"