Bodymap

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In Bodymap, Lambda Award winning writer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha sings a queer disabled femme of colour love song filled with hard femme poetics and disability justice The first book of the author to examine disability from a queer femme of color lens, Bodymap contains work created and performed with Sins Invalid Bodymap maps hard and vulnerable terrains of queer desire, survivorhood, transformative love, sick and disabled queer genius and all the homes we claim and deserve These poems are a gift for your love for self, your love itself and everyone you love It is rare that a poet priestess offers words that allow us to emerge reborn with dirt, glitter and tenderness Revere it Revel in it Read it again and again Alexis Pauline Gumbs Bodymap uses the alchemy of the voice on the page to transform words into an ache in the pit of me I want what these poems demand to be free to love die, to be resurrected in time, to be restored by desire Piepzna Samarasinha has located where this body houses the smirk learned from the sidewalk, the reason to do the difficult, and the blessings for the best worst thing Meg Day, author of Last Psalm at Sea Level Sharp, yet remarkably compassionate, Piepzna Samarasinha knows that the poem is no place for tidy inquiry and easy answers She offers her own tenacious guts and veins on each and every page Only someone who understands rage and reconciliation and blood and bone can write like this Amber Dawn, author of How Poetry Saved My Life A Hustler s Memoir and Sub Rosa Free Download [ Bodymap ] by [ Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ] – kino-fada.fr If youve never read anything by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha, you probably have no idea how much of a real treat youre in for when you pick her latest poetry collection, Bodymap Its her strongest set of poetry yet Lyrically these are a tight set of poems, filled with gorgeous, evocative images Theyre visceral, tough but soft, just like the hard femmes some of the poems are about, as well as Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha herself In fact, the poem my city i...I dont read a lot of poetry, but its collections like this that make me realize I should correct that Bodymap deals with race, sexuality, class, and disability, always handling with these topics as intersecting aspects of everyday life, not as abstract theories Piepzna Samarasinha plays with tone and form throughout, but it says grounded and accessible I spent most of Bodymap impatient to be ...Poetry about being a queer disabled femme of color Raw, emotional, heart breaking, thought provoking, beautiful I related to some of it, being queer and disabled myself I am not femme though I am AFAB or a poc What I couldn t rela...I find it easiest to review books which I liked but had some issues with, because then I can discuss those issues at length Truly awful and genuinely wonderful books can sometimes take a backseat, which then results in me not posting about some of my favorite books.Body...Poetry isn t usually my go to when it comes to reading but something about this book of poetry, the way the book seller at Elliot Bay Book Company was saying wonderful things about the author s writing talents and the fact that it s not easy to find poetry written from a Brown, Queer disabled person s point of view is what sold me on reading it.I can t wait to readpoetry that s been written by Leah and hopefully by reading this book it will lead me to find other bo...damn, this book this book first poems i ve read in a long time that stopped me dead, feeling a truth reverberate through my sternum which ms piepzna samarsinha describes, so lovingly, as the exact location of her home this book made me want to run to the copy shop and copy poems and mail them to friends who need to hear these words but don t have 20 to purchase a book right now, who can t wait six months or a year for it to show up in their library because they need to hear it now they damn, this book this book first poems i ve read in a long time that stopped me dead, feeling a truth reverberate through my sternum w...absolutely incredible.RTC2.5 I did not finish this poetry collection I got about halfway through and it was okay I liked the title poem a lot.Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha s writing gave words and made tangible my experiences as a queer person of color who has grown up disabled and in chronic pain I revisit this book when I feel alone and isolated and I have shared many of their poems with people I care aboutSome lines from Bodymap I want you to love meafter the lipstick wears offwhite bois with eager butsand nonprofit movement jobs you wantedare just like whole foods take out when you are too tiredyou can pay too muchfor a tasteless version of your culturethat promises it wont kill you.afterwards, a greasy crunched compostable boxand debit charge so muchexpensivethan you budgeted for This border is rotten meat, a hallucination, a wavering linea stupid idea Cant we blink and it ll be gone Some lines from Bodymap I want you to love meafter the lipstick wears offwhite bois with eager butsand nonprofit movement jobs you wantedare just like whole foods t...

Bodymap
  • English
  • 18 March 2019
  • Paperback
  • 112 pages
  • 1927494508
  • Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
  • Bodymap