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Transitory
Series: American Poets Continuum Series
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This collection will resonate with readers interested in contemporary poetry, LGBTQ+ issues, and social justice. It offers profound insights for those reflecting on identity, violence, and resilience within transgender and Queer communities.
"Grounded in protest and solidarity, Subhaga Crystal Bacon's Isabella Garder Award-winning Transitory is a collection of elegies memorializing 46 transgender and gender-nonconforming people murdered in the US and Puerto Rico in 2020"--
- Excerpts in various journals including Rise Up Review, Queer Southeast Asia: A Journal of Transgressive Art, QT/Queer Toronto Literary Magazine, The Indianapolis Review, and River Heron Review.
- National Advertising: Academy of American Poets Newsletter; Fall book announcements submitted to Publishers Weekly.
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Grounded in protest and solidarity, Subhaga Crystal Bacon's Isabella Gardner Award-winning Transitory is a collection of elegies memorialising 46 transgender and gender-nonconforming people murdered in the US and Puerto Rico in 2020.
Epistolary in nature, these commemorative poems are "gleaned sketches" attempting to reconstruct lives and deaths from the typically scarce information made available on the internet. Interspersed with the elegies are personal explorations of gender identities and sexualities from a Queer elder who has lived through the post-Stonewall years of sexual liberation, the second wave of feminism, and the recent rapid increases in awareness about gender and sexualities met almost equally with anti-trans and anti-Queer violence.
Seen through the lenses of whiteness and privilege from the last quarter of a lifetime, these poems navigate the desire to be at home in our bodies, to be loved and desired without danger, and most of all to live free, healthy, and welcome in the world we inhabit.
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Praised by Diane Seuss, author of frank: sonnets, Transitory is recognised for its lyric intensity and documentary poetics. The poems incorporate public records and intimate details, creating dignified, elegant tributes that invite deep empathy. Seuss highlights how the collection compels readers to engage beyond the text, urging them to confront the harsh realities behind the losses it honours.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781950774968
Publisher: BOA Editions, Limited
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 28 December 2023
Country: United States
Imprint: BOA Editions, Limited
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 228.0mm
Height: 152.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 104
About the Author
Subhaga Crystal Bacon is the author of two previous collections of poetry, Elegy with a Glass of Whiskey, BOA 2004, and Blue Hunger, Methow Press, 2020. She was a nominee for the 2021-23 Washington State Poet Laureateship and was nominated for both Pushcart and Best of the Web prizes in 2021. A Queer elder, she is a teacher of embodied awakening and poetry and the places where they intersect. Subhaga's work touches on the liminal spaces between personal identity- gender, sexuality, aging, loss, and ways of being- and contemplation of the natural world. She lives with her partner, Sugandhi Katharine Barnes, a painter, and their Labradoodle, Lola, in the expansive Twisp River valley on the eastern slopes of the North Cascade mountains in Twisp, WA.
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