Overview
An excavatory collection of poems tracing the connections between Jewish transfemininity, queer desire, and cultural histories.
Selected by Sean Hill for the National Poetry Series, this collection is a scrupulous chronicle of individual and cultural knowledge. In an exceptional debut, Ava Nathaniel Winter challenges our concepts of the beautiful and the sacred, delving not only into the historically marginalized, but also into the chilling subconscious of supremacy. āLet me be clear / from this beginning,ā she writes, āWhat I mean by beauty / is a terror I have fled from / into language.ā
Winter writes with a documentarianāsĀ attention, a poetās resonance. āIām trying,ā she admits, āto find language for what we do / to one another.ā From ÅĆ³dÅŗ, Poland, to predominantly white suburban America, from the space shared by queer lovers to antique cabinets filled with Nazi memorabilia, from Talmudic depictions of genderqueer rabbis to archival lynching photos, she regards the tender and the difficult with equal gravity, commemorates the fraught gift of survival.
At the heart of this collectionādespite its moments of profound darknessāis a new, hard-won holiness. The āearthy aroma of ryeā calling up a motherās baking, her motherās, hers. Belief in a loverās lavishing. A chosen future, one where we are āreader, sibling, sister.āĀ If Transgenesis began in fear of beauty, where it lands is this: āturning at last / to face her.ā
This book title, Transgenesis, ISBN: 9781639550043, by Ava Nathaniel Winter, published by Milkweed Editions (August 6, 2024) 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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