More Sure

Name: More Sure
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781551529172
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By A. Light Zachary

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More Sure is a striking debut poetry collection by A. Light Zachary that explores love, self-realisation, and recovery within non-binary, queer, and autistic lives. Through powerful and fluid verses, Zachary reflects on identity across gender, language, family, labour, sexuality, fear, and love. The poems creatively interrupt classical quotations from ancient Greek and Roman philosophers, reimagining their words as advice to non-binary individuals. Drawing on punk rock and quantum physics, the collection offers a contemporary voice that celebrates continuous self-discovery and a bold assertion of queer space.
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This collection will resonate strongly with readers interested in contemporary poetry, queer and non-binary identities, neurodiversity, and intersections of classical literature with modern voices. It suits those who appreciate imaginative, personal, and socially conscious verse.

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A book of poems and augmentations, recording instances of love, self-realisation, and recovery in non-binary, queer, and autistic lives.

In their stunning debut collection, More Sure, A. Light Zachary draws power from a vision of life—especially queer and neurodivergent life—as a journey of continuous self-realisation. These poems record the experience of locating oneself over and over again, within gender, language, family, labour, sexuality, fear, and love.

Reaching back to claim queer space in the oldest Western canon, Zachary interrupts famous quotations from ancient Greek and Roman thinkers, asking: what advice might Juvenal or Seneca have handed down to non-binary citizens? Elsewhere, in concise and fluid verses that draw from punk rock and quantum physics, they ground the work firmly in the present. Come: invade the alien. Evade with the coyote.

These poems propose a certain supremacy: in these unending journeys of discovery and alienation, "we become more sure of who we are than you."

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Critically acclaimed, More Sure has been described as an introspective exploration of transgender experience and self-acceptance by the Toronto Star. The Harvard Review compares reading it to uncovering secret knowledge for forging a new life. Book Riot praises its exuberance, defiance, and tenderness, highlighting the inventive reimagining of ancient philosophy as queer guidance. Poet Eduardo C. Corral calls it "powerful and tightly crafted," noting its success in blending political and intimate language.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781551529172

Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 July 2023

Country: Canada

Imprint: Arsenal Pulp Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 108

Collections

A. Light Zachary Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Poetry

About the Author

A. Light Zachary is a writer, editor, and artist who was recently awarded fellowships for their poetry by the Lambda Literary Foundation and the Banff Centre for the Arts. Their previous publications include a novella, The End, by Anna (Metatron, 2016). More Sure is their first book of poems.