Intimacies, Received signals agency, as trauma isheld to the light and finally named.In this astonishing second collection by Taneum Bambrick, violence hides in the glint...

Intimacies, Received signals agency, as trauma is
held to the light and finally named.In this astonishing second collection by Taneum Bambrick,
violence hides in the glint of the carving knife--every intimacy a shadow, every
memory a maze to navigate. Set primarily in rural Southern Spain, Intimacies,
Received moves through streets and fields, households and years, following
a survivor of sexual assault as she painstakingly reassembles a narrative of
self. A brilliant storyteller, Bambrick builds through palimpsest--layering
vivid imagery to recall embodiment and dissociation, illness and isolation,
queer female sexuality amidst acts of misogyny--utilizing varied forms including
ekphrasis, persona, and a lyric essay. Ultimately, Intimacies, Received
signals agency, as trauma is held to the light and finally named.

Author: Taneum Bambrick
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 09/27/2022
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781556596315


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/15/2022

About the Author

Taneum Bambrick is the author of Intimacies, Received
(Copper Canyon Press, 2022) and Vantage, which was selected by Sharon Olds for
the APR / Honickman First Book Award (American Poetry Review, 2019). Her
chapbook, Reservoir, was selected by Ocean Vuong for the 2017 Yemassee Chapbook
Prize. She is the winner of an Academy of American Poets University Prize, an
Environmental Writing Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Arts Center, and the
2018 BOOTH Nonfiction Contest. She was a 2020 Stegner Fellow at Stanford
University, and has received scholarships from the Sewanee Writers' Conference and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. She is the Reviews Editor at Pleiades
Magazine and a Dornsife Fellow in Creative Writing and Literature in the PhD
program at USC.