Title: Tender Points
Description: "Tender Points is a narrative fractured by trauma. Named after the diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia, the book-length lyric essay explores sexual violence, gendered illness, chronic pain, and patriarchy through the lenses of lived experience and pop culture (Twin Peaks, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, noise music, etc.)." -from amyberko.com/#tender-points
Subjects: trauma, feminism, chronic pain, rape culture, women's studies, Chronic pain, Psychic trauma, Fibromyalgia, American poetry, Poetry, Prose poems, Vulvodynia