Wound from the Mouth of a Wound Greathouse Torrin A.
Wound from the Mouth of a Wound Greathouse Torrin A. A versatile missive written from the intersections of gender, disability, trauma, and survival. greathouse writes, "but spring from the dirt."…
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Wound from the Mouth of a Wound Greathouse Torrin A.
A versatile missive written from the intersections of gender, disability, trauma, and survival. greathouse writes, "but spring from the dirt." Guided by a devastatingly precise hand, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound--selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil as the winner of the 2020 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry--challenges a canon that decides what shades of beauty deserve to live in a poem. "Some girls are not made," torrin a.
She argues that the vestigial is not devoid of meaning, and in kinetic and vigorous language, she honors bodies the world too often wants dead.These poems ache, but they do not surrender. greathouse celebrates "buckteeth & ulcer." She odes the pulp of a bedsore. They bleed, but they spit the blood in our eyes.
Their imagery pulses on the page, fractal and fluid, blooming in a medley of forms: broken essays, haibun born of erasure, a sonnet meant to