Letters to forget : poems / Kelly Caldwell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caldwell, Kelly, 1988-2020, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caldwell, Kelly, 1988-2020--Mental health.

Caldwell, Kelly.

Caldwell, Kelly, 1988-2020--Correspondence.

Trans women--Poetry.

Trans women.

Genre:

poetry.

Transgender poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

vii, 92 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.

Summary:

"With searing intelligence and great sensitivity, the final poems of Kelly Caldwell-many addressed to Cass Donish, her partner in the years before her suicide at thirty-one, swim through a complex matrix of transformations: mental illness, divorce, gender transition, and self-discovery. But they wrestle, too, with the poet's painful relationships with her family of Christian missionaries, who refused to affirm her identity. In a sequence of "dear c." poems scattered throughout these pages, Caldwell writes letters to her lover from an out-of-state residential hospital where she is receiving treatment for suicidal depression and mania. In a long poem titled "Self-Portrait as Job," she offers us her lucid gaze and her queer take on the biblical figure-an understated yet powerful testament to her own suffering in a society whose structures may not contain her. Both striking and elusive, both raw and learned, with a delicacy of syntax that challenges us to interrogate becoming itself, Kelly Caldwell asks us from beyond: What kind of fragile agency is at the heart of obliterating change?"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi book"--title page verso.

Other Format:

Online version: Caldwell, Kelly, 1988-2020. Letters to forget

ISBN:

9780593538012

0593538013

9781524712501

1524712507

OCLC:

1412199245