Inbetweenland
Jacks' poetry reminds me what it really means to heal in the fierce, delicious, messy 'tendercomplex' way that queer survivors breathe in our bones every day. Their words stitch a quilt full of fisting, fighting, glitter, and all our secret landscapes and escape routes. This is a fierce, fierce music. A prayer and a promise, taking us home. --Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, 2012 Lambda Award winner, author ofLove Cakeand coeditor ofThe Revolution Starts at HomeWhere is home, when you do not belong where you begin? When land is stolen and the diaspora is not yours to claim? How do we survive to write our lives lives that have been erased or not yet written? Poet and activist Jacks McNamara knows that the questions are more important than the answers, and their debut collection leaves us with so many beautiful, dangerous, and brave new ways of asking. --Leah Horlick, author ofRiot Lung