Description
These poems move through the intersections of gender, disability, trauma, and survival, insisting that what the world calls “unfit” or “ugly” belongs—fully and fiercely—on the page. With devastating precision and kinetic, shape-shifting language, the collection challenges a poetic canon that decides which bodies and beauties are allowed to live, turning wounds, vestiges, and the overlooked into charged sites of meaning. Across fractured forms—broken essays, haibun shaped by erasure, and even a sonnet designed for the mirror—greathouse builds a high-voltage lyric argument for persistence, dignity, and the right to remain. Elegantly vicious and unflinchingly tender, these poems ache without surrendering, bleeding into the reader’s sightline until language itself learns not to speak someone into a funeral.
Available Editions
paperback
Milkweed+ORM
Published Dec 22, 2020
79 pages
ISBN: 9781571317155
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Details
First Published
2020
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Wound from the Mouth of a Wound: Poems by torrin a. greathouse.