Holy Wild
Publisher: Book*hug
Published: Sep 01, 2018
Language: eng; oji
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781771664394
Description: "In her third collection of poetry, HOLY WILD, Gwen Benaway explores the complexities of being an Indigenous trans woman in expansive lyric poems. She holds up the Indigenous trans body as a site of struggle, liberation, and beauty. A confessional poet, Benaway narrates her sexual and romantic intimacies with partners as well as her work to navigate the daily burden of transphobia and violence. She examines the intersections of Indigenous and trans experience through autobiographical poems and continues to speak to the legacy of abuse, violence, and colonial erasure that defines Canada. Her sparse lines, interwoven with English and Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe), illustrate the wonder and power of Indigenous trans womanhood in motion."--Amazon.com.