Texas Review Press, paperback
Publication Date: November 15, 2023
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2024 Stonewall Book Award - Barbara Gittings Literature Award Honor Book
2024 Mass Book Awards Poetry Longlist
2023 Boston Authors Club Julia Ward Howe Awards Notable Book
Winner of The 2022 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize, selected by Kimiko Hahn
Set on a remote island on the Maine coast, GHOST:: SEEDS incorporates elements of magical realism and myth to explore and trouble conceptions of gender and identity. The central tension of this book-length poem is a dialogue between a trans speaker and his "ghost," the "girl-ghost" of the self that he left behind to become the man he is today. Putting a queer spin on the myth of Persephone, the girl-ghost speaks from underworld lit by glowworms, cut through by dark rivers, and connected to the world above through a sea cave. Alternating between prose-like elements and lyric meditations, the book's expansive form makes full use of the page from margin to margin, creating space and breathing room for complicated investigations of memory, gender, and grief.
