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a body more tolerable
Ferocious and vulnerable poems about redefining acts of creation, destruction, deconstruction, and recreation, from a singular Indigiqueer point of view
a body more tolerable is a collection of powerful and haunting poems combining faerie tales, mythology, and a self-divinized female rage. Divided into three parts, the book examines Indigenous grief, trans identity, and frustrated desires in ways that reject perception. Gone is the soft, kind, gentle girl that author jaye simpson once thought she would become. Instead, she unravels the sticky threads of colonialism with poems that exact lyrical acts of self-surgery.
In these visceral poems, teeth gleam, graze skin, and sink into flesh, becoming bloodied and exposing the animalistic hunger that lies within. Pulsating with yearning and possibility, a body more tolerable is a book that resists typical notions of physicality and sex to dream of a world more divine. It is a call-out into the canon for a new age, one filled with retribution and recompense.
Here memorial flowers drip from parting lips a swarm of bees escapes the throat croaking a new magic in the face of old fears Here in the years of held breath jaye simpson generously transports us through a body more tolerable revealing with every page a blessed haunting a knowing witness an incendiary inheritance and a different kind of return Here we are invited to discover sacred truths yes a scream can be a song a sideways water a cocoon of never happening my heart my heart my heart my heart my heart Jillian Christmas author of The Gospel of Breaking
jaye simpsons a body more tolerable is a singular achievement Her poetic project at once forwarddawning and ancestral both revolutionary and decolonizing is given total expression in this book These poems moved me immensely there is so much beauty feeling and power in all of them No one is writing like jaye simpson BillyRay Belcourt author of A Minor Chorus and Coexistence
a body more tolerable is a work at once open and lyric fearless and tender Expanding griefs territory into moments of relation and desire simpson also challenges home as a wayward theory into a poetics of selfmothering of being beyond becoming This collection is a fierce and resistant nurturing Liz Howard author of Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent and Letters in a Bruised Cosmos
i cant retire this tongue jaye simpson writes in a sophomore collection that creeps howls floats shatters an Indigenous speaker grapples with survival the foster care system the body conceptions of motherhood and trans girlhood in this heartwrenching leap that returns what is most precious to us through lush language and keen lyricism each poem is a portal of longing ferocity softness i cant recommend it enough Kinsale Drake National Poetry Serieswinning author of The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket
jaye simpson is one of the most compelling and incisive voices of their generation In a body more tolerable they seize the English language and command it into an instrument that meticulously sings the realities of their present moment I found solace fire and a relentless love for living and loving in these poetic offerings a body more tolerable is a wayward map and it is gorgeous Ill carry it close to my heart Leanne Betasamosake Simpson author of Noopiming The Cure for White Ladies
jaye simpsons a body more tolerable is a singular achievement Her poetic project at once forwarddawning and ancestral both revolutionary and decolonizing is given total expression in this book These poems moved me immensely there is so much beauty feeling and power in all of them No one is writing like jaye simpson BillyRay Belcourt author of A Minor Chorus and Coexistence
a body more tolerable is a work at once open and lyric fearless and tender Expanding griefs territory into moments of relation and desire simpson also challenges home as a wayward theory into a poetics of selfmothering of being beyond becoming This collection is a fierce and resistant nurturing Liz Howard author of Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent and Letters in a Bruised Cosmos
i cant retire this tongue jaye simpson writes in a sophomore collection that creeps howls floats shatters an Indigenous speaker grapples with survival the foster care system the body conceptions of motherhood and trans girlhood in this heartwrenching leap that returns what is most precious to us through lush language and keen lyricism each poem is a portal of longing ferocity softness i cant recommend it enough Kinsale Drake National Poetry Serieswinning author of The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket
jaye simpson is one of the most compelling and incisive voices of their generation In a body more tolerable they seize the English language and command it into an instrument that meticulously sings the realities of their present moment I found solace fire and a relentless love for living and loving in these poetic offerings a body more tolerable is a wayward map and it is gorgeous Ill carry it close to my heart Leanne Betasamosake Simpson author of Noopiming The Cure for White Ladies
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88 Pages
8.00in * 6.00in * .25in
128.00gr
Published:
March 25, 2025
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9781551529677
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