num_pages: 112
description: In Bodymap Lambda Award winning writer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha sings a queer disabled femme of colour love song filled with hard femme poetics and disability justice. The first book of the author to examine disability from a queer femme of color lens Bodymap contains work created and performed with Sins Invalid. Bodymap maps hard and vulnerable terrains of queer desire survivorhood transformative love sick and disabled queer genius and all the homes we claim and deserve.These poems are a gift for your love for self your love itself and everyone you love. It is rare that a poet priestess offers words that allow us to emerge reborn with dirt glitter and tenderness... Revere it. Revel in it. Read it again and again! Alexis Pauline GumbsBodymap uses the alchemy of the voice on the page to transform words into an ache in the pit of me. I want what these poems demand: to be free to love &amp; die to be resurrected in time &amp; to be restored by desire. Piepzna-Samarasinha has located where this body houses the smirk learned from the sidewalk the reason to do the difficult and the blessings for the best worst thing.Meg Day author of Last Psalm at Sea Level Sharp yet remarkably compassionate Piepzna-Samarasinha knows that the poem is no place for tidy inquiry and easy answers. She offers her own tenacious guts and veins on each and every page. Only someone who understands rage and reconciliation and blood and bone can write like this.Amber Dawn author of How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustlers Memoir and Sub Rosa
language: English
title: Bodymap
publisher: Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.