"As KB navigates burning issues of love, identity, race, and enforced gender, bearing witness to how intimacy can be a battleground, a declared truce, or...
"As KB navigates burning issues of love, identity, race, and enforced gender, bearing witness to how intimacy can be a battleground, a declared truce, or an Eden, How to Identify Yourself with a Wound is never less than compelling and absorbing: 'Let me tell you the story of a tenderness the world refused to call / beautiful but it lives.' The powerful lines, the no-holds-barred voice, and risk-taking candor of these dynamic debut poems make the reader hungry for a whole volume."
"The poems in How to Identify Yourself with a Wound pull no punches. Raw honesty paired with concise language inhabit and fully embody a life shaped by the intersection of race, class, sexuality, and gender. This is my favorite kind of poetry, necessary and urgent, revealing and saving and healing and re-creating both poet and reader." -
Author: Kb Brookins
Publisher: Kallisto Gaia Press
Published: 01/18/2022
Pages: 52
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.12d
ISBN: 9781952224133
About the AuthorBrookins, Kb: - "KB is from Stop Six, Fort Worth, Texas. They are a Black queer genderless poet, educator, organizer, and student affairs professional. They are the author of HOW TO IDENTIFY YOURSELF WITH A WOUND (Kallisto Gaia Press, 2022), winner of the 2020 Saguaro Poetry Prize. KB has received fellowship invitations from Lambda Literary, Vermont Studio Center, The Watering Hole, Equality Texas, African American Leadership Institute - Austin, In Surreal Life, The Hurston/Wright Foundation, Winter Tangerine, and more. Their poetry appears in The Cincinnati Review, Puerto del Sol, The Matador Review, Palette Poetry, African Writer Magazine, and other pretty places. When they're not on stage or in the page, they serve as Program Coordinator for the Gender and Sexuality Center at the University of Texas at Austin, Founding Executive Director of Interfaces, Co-Founder/President of Embrace Austin, and educator in various settings."
