Overview
With frank humor, Chertock takes on varied and critical aspects of identityāfemininity, gender, sexualityāas they relate (or donāt relate) to her disability, somehow succeeding in making them familiar and universal. Her poetry is one that challenges us to see our limitations, not as individuals but as people together, all of us, ultimately, crumb-sized. Born in 1991, Chertockās is an exciting and contemporary voiceābrutally honest, deeply humane and ultimately triumphant.
In the poem āApplication to Nasaā, she writes of her struggle to accept the physical limitations that will keep her bound to Earth, and yet, at the end she counters with this assertion:
still Iām strong. I may be one of the strongest candidates youāve ever had.
In another poem, she urges us to keep seeing beyond ourselves:/BR>
Keep magnifying the universe ā because itās still expanding, with or without you.
Accessible and plain-speaking, the poems of Crumb-sized ask questions anyone who has suffered a little can relate to; an inspirational and uplifting book for young and old alike.
This book title, Crumb-sized (Poems), ISBN: 9781944700478, by Marlena Chertock, published by The Unnamed Press (August 15, 2017) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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