Book
We want it all : an anthology of radical trans poetics
Publication Information
New York : Nightboat Books, [2020]
Physical Description
454 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary
"Editors Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel offer 'We Want it All : An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics' as an experiment into how far literature, written from an identitarian standpoint, can go as a fellow traveler with social movements and revolutionary demands. Writing in dialogue with emancipatory political movements, the intergenerational writers assembled here imagine an altogether overturned world in poems that pursue the particular and multiple trans relationships to desire, embodiment, housing, sex, ecology, history, pop culture, and the working day."--Publisher's website.
Notes
Contributors: Aaron El Sabrout, Aeon Ginsberg, Akasha-Mitra, Amy Marvin, Andrea Abi-Karam, Ari Banias, Bahaar Ahsan, Bianca Rae Messinger, Bryn Kelly, CAConrad, Caelan Ernest, Callie Gardner, Cameron Awkward-Rich, Caspar Heinemann, Charles Theonia, Ching-In Chen, Clara Zornado & Jo Barchi, Cody-Rose Clevidence, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, Evan Kleekamp, Faye Chevalier, Harry Josephine Giles, Hazel Avery, Holly Raymond, Ian Khara Ellasante, Jackie Ess, Jamie Townsend, Jayson Keery, Jesi Gaston, Jessica Bet, Jimmy Cooper, José Díaz, Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Joss Barton, Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Kamden Hilliard, Kashif Sharma-Patel, Kay Gabriel, Laurel Uziell, Leslie Feinberg, Levi Bentley, Liam O'Brien, Listen Chen, Logan February, Lou Sullivan, Mai Schwartz, Maxe Crandall, Miles Collins-Sibley, Nat Raha, Natalie Mesnard, NM Esc, Noah Lebien, Nora Fulton, Nora Treatbaby, Peach Kander, Rachel Franklin Wood, Raquel Salas Rivera, Ray Filar, Rocket Caleshu, Rowan Powell, Samuel Ace, Stephen Ira, Sylvia Rivera, T Fleischmann, Trish Salah, Ty Little, Valentine Conaty, Xandria Phillips, Xtian W & Anaïs Duplan, Zavé Gayatri Martohardjono.
Contents
- Making Love and Putting on Obscene Plays and Poetry Outside the Empty Former Prisons / King Krule & Mexican Street Sounds & Medicine Tea / Against Queering the Map
- Beast Government / So that's what happened?! / Hey Guys
- The First Trans Poem / To the Cop Who Read My Text Messages
- Hold My Hand / From The real me an erasure of Janice Raymond's The transexual empire
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter II
- Chapter III / Cut the apricot in half and remove the pit the pit can only get in your way / That Morning Will Feel Quite Luminous
- Final Note Regarding Some Actions / Diving into the Wreck / 900 Chocolate Hearts a Minute at the Candy Factory
- Glitter in My Wounds
- Encircling This Day With Centipede Coordination
- Impaled By Sharp Points of Wonderment
- You Cannot Return a Stretched Mind / Four Perspectives (Of The Same Object) / Love & Rage, & Rage / Everywhere We Look, There We Are / Ferocious Lack Harmony / The People's Beach
- The Color Of Joy Is Pink / Behind the Ballroom
- Household Mutations
- Returning to a Posted Notice Taped to the Door
- Trying to Feel Human/Tomorrow
- Self-Portrait, house with no one present / Correspondence on Erotics and Karaoke Rooms / Pollinate; by hand
- Untitled ("OF TH UGLIEST FLOWERS")
- Nothing Makes Sense About This Flower
- "For Those Abt To Rock, We Salute You" / Harold mouthfucks THE DEVIL / From The Cloth / Feral & not masc enough for a shoulder tattoo
- Blood II
- Fantasy football / Abolish The Police / Sister city
- Piss sister / Secret Mission Orders for Goblin Romantic
- One or Several Goblin Girl Workers Dreaming in Unison of the Mothman
- By the Gayborhood Shake Shack I Sat Down and Wept / Let me tell: you Diana
- Are you kidding me Diana / Autumn Leaves
- Weather / Spit on Your Grave
- Energy Vampire / Me Problem / Harpo's Brothers
- Harpo's Frog
- Harpo's Moment In The Sun / Dalmatian People / Untitled ("Denim Cherubim Curls Over Collar")
- I Am Really, Truly In This Bitch Poem / Yes A Conversation
- Jose Diaz
- Confessional Poem
- Sonnet For The Intro To Critical Theory Professor Who Made Her Negative Feelings About Trans People Perfectly Clear After I Came Out To Her In That Gut-Churning "Please Call Me By My Chosen Name And Not The One On The Roster" Email I'd Have To Send Out To All My Instructors Every Term / Pink_sissy / My voice was too obvious
- Against breeding
- In the cut
- On loneliness / Well Organized Note On Governance, Or, Wake Up, Sheeple!
- The Tetsuo Harano Tunnels Are Colonial Infrastructure! / Ekphrastic motion
- The two genders (on mangoes and watermelons)
- Thresholds (after mahmoud darwish and bülent ersoy) / You Say Wife
- I Could Go On / From T / From Stone Butch Blues / Slender oat rehearse* / Companion Poetica
- It Is Not Safe / Like the moon when freed from the clouds
- This body is like froth
- Desire is poured upon your lovely face Aphrodite has honoured you exceedingly
- The Tidy Crimes of Personhood
- Ill Girl of the Year / From We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan / We are better days / From Mud in Love / Mid-Morning Triptych / [Second transfeminist tract / i]
- (When we're working while we're asleep)
- From [9x9] / Projection in Retrograde
- Data Clustering / Sunset Vans
- Enclosure
- Born:2 / Big Dick Plague
- The Last One / To've Never
- Suqu / Ammo in Hairdo / Try
- Love is / a rat / Mud Effigy / Soon we'll be people again / You've heard of Ritalin, now what if I told you governments make bodies into crime scenes for no reason at all / Feye / The _ _ _ jumped over the _ _ _(along a line a leap a landing) / Every morning I wait for a pouch of dreams
- Body Parts
- Blood yes
- I hear a dog who is always in my death
- These Nights / From An Elizabeth
- Little Elizabeth
- Applicant Elizabeth
- Acrobat Elizabeth
- Thinning Elizabeth
- Jolted Elizabeth / Bitch On Wheels: A Speech by Sylvia Rivera, June 2001 / From Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through / Manifest
- What's to come
- Love poem / Cows in suits
- I hate The Beatles / Manifestation before love
- Conjunctivitis / Nativity
- Sometimes Boyhood / I am not prepared is it essential to change / Smoke
- la realidad