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    By (author): Avery Lake

    A brilliant poetic debut about gender-based violence that dismantles received definitions of both gender and violence, Horrible Dance is an accomplished addition to transfeminist thought and theory.

    By turns darkly comic, emotionally connected, playful, incisive, lyrical and irreverent, Lake’s poems navigate a harrowing personal and political terrain with understated, expansive wisdom. Lake persistently returns us to the search for love that lies at the core of relational trauma, even as she shows us how catastrophically such a search can be derailed.

    This is a rare text able to hold the full velocity of a survivor’s hurt and rage alongside a clear-eyed understanding of the extent and complexity of harm. In their honest accounting of a wide array of bad encounters, these poems point us, again, toward compassion, tenderness, and solidarity.

    can you forgive me< /br>for how you hurt me so bad
    –“On Shame”

    AUTHOR

    Avery Lake

    Avery Lake is a worker and writer living in occupied Tiohtià:ke. She attended Concordia University and is not in the scene.

    Review

    “The poems in Horrible Dance offer deft witness and lament with a wryly arched brow, and a tender heart, well bruised, still beating.”–Trish Salah, author of Wanting in Arabic and Lyric Sexology Vol. 1


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    A brilliant poetic debut about gender-based violence that dismantles received definitions of both gender and violence, Horrible Dance is an accomplished addition to transfeminist thought and theory.

    By turns darkly comic, emotionally connected, playful, incisive, lyrical and irreverent, Lake’s poems navigate a harrowing personal and political terrain with understated, expansive wisdom. Lake persistently returns us to the search for love that lies at the core of relational trauma, even as she shows us how catastrophically such a search can be derailed.

    This is a rare text able to hold the full velocity of a survivor’s hurt and rage alongside a clear-eyed understanding of the extent and complexity of harm. In their honest accounting of a wide array of bad encounters, these poems point us, again, toward compassion, tenderness, and solidarity.

    can you forgive me< /br>for how you hurt me so bad
    –“On Shame”

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    Details

    Dimensions:

    72 Pages
    8.5in * 5.75in * 0.21in
    0.14lb

    Published:

    April 30, 2022

    Country of Publication:

    CA

    Publisher:

    Brick Books

    ISBN:

    9781771315753

    Book Subjects:

    POETRY / LGBTQ+

    Language:

    eng

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