Water I won't touch / Kayleb Rae Candrilli.
"Both radically tender and desperate for change, Water I Won't Touch is a life raft and a self-portrait, concerned with the vitality of trans people living in a dangerous and inhospitable landscape. Through the brambles of the Pennsylvania forest to a stretch of the Jersey Shore, in quiet...
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| Other title: | Water I will not touch |
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| Language: | English |
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Port Townsend, Washington :
Copper Canyon Press,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Sand & silt
- One geography of belonging
- On the ways our mouths betray us
- Water I won't touch
- On the abuse of sleep aids
- Some thoughts on luck
- On the benefits of learning by example
- Sestina written as though genesis
- Water I won't touch
- Summering in Wildwood, NJ
- On crescents & waning
- On traveling together
- We remain foolishly hopeful (or, obituary for the topsoil)
- On having forgotten to recycle
- Echo
- My partner wants me to write them a poem about Drew Barrymore
- Valentine, Nebraska: Cherry county
- You've heard this before: the only way out is through
- I challenge my father to an arm-wrestling competition and finally win
- Water we won't touch
- My partner wants me to write them a poem about Sheryl Crow
- Here we are, again together, just like we said we would
- Transgender heroic: all this ridiculous flesh.