Joshua Jennifer Espinoza

I Don't Want to Be Understood

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"The potent and focused fourth collection from Espinoza (There Should Be Flowers) captures the danger, mental strain, and transcendence of a trans woman's experience. ... At times devastating, at times chilling, this volume expresses an exhilarating defiance." -Publishers Weekly "In Joshua Jennifer Espinoza's collection I Don't Want to Be Understood, anti-trans sentiment is both structural and structuring; the atmospheric quality of transphobia affects what and how the poems' speaker dreams, dreads, desires. A hauntingly intimate portrait spanning a life from childhood to today, the collection is deeply attuned to both the harsh and harmonious pitches that accompany experiences of transition in a society that is hostile to trans happiness." -Oscar Ivins, Rain Taxi Review of Books "...Espinoza's resilient vulnerability makes for a wonderfully accessible collection exploring entanglements between desires, fears, misgivings, traumas, mundane triumphs, and more. Yet the collection resists easy categorization ... I Don't Want to Be Understood is interested in one's own value to voice their experience, not a need to make a body knowable; in connections, not academics; survival, not compliance. With its dismissal of easy legibility, Espinoza's latest volume is one to add not only to any collection on trans poetics, but one for any reader interested in confessional and lyric poetry that refuses to be neatly pinned down." -Rhiannon Thorne, Up the Staircase Quarterly

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Alice James Books
• Seitenzahl: 100
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 151mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 174g
• ISBN-13: 9781949944631
• ISBN-10: 1949944638
• Artikelnr.: 68469432

Autorenporträt

Joshua Jennifer Espinoza is a transsexual poet. Her work has been featured in Poetry Magazine, The American Poetry Review, Split Lip Magazine, Gulf Coast Journal, The Southeast Review, MoMA Magazine, and elsewhere. She is the author of I'm Alive / It Hurts / I Love It (2019) and THERE SHOULD BE FLOWERS (2016). She holds an MFA in poetry from UC Riverside and is currently a professor of creative writing. Jennifer lives in West Virginia with her wife, poet/essayist Eileen Elizabeth, and their cat and dog.