The Stone Who Strapped Me

By Victoria Mbabazi

For readers of Eileen Myles and Audre Lorde, a vivid poetry collection that captures the messiness of queer relationships through a non-binary Black lens

Brimming with desire and brazen honesty, The Stone Who Strapped Me is a collection of confessional and erotic poems exploring the pleasures and disappointments of modern queer dating. Victoria Mbabazi dwells in the wake of past relationships after being ghosted, seeking enlightenment through self-destructive acts: ill-advised texts and late-night searches. They go through various apps in search of something elusive, just out of reach.

A series of vignettes capturing the mundane and the magical, this book bears witness to becoming and unbecoming, the infinite endings and beginnings that make up a vibrantly gay life. It is also a life that exists in community, in a constellation of friends and found family, rippling with tenderness and humor.

An ode and an elegy, The Stone Who Strapped Me expresses love as devastation and resurrection in equal breath, littered with hauntings. This is a book about loving openly and fiercely--and, most of all, healing without apology.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H6ZX1RBL
• ISBN13: 9781834050669
• Release Date: April 2027
• Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
• Length: 112 Pages