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It was never going to be okay / Jaye Simpson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- simpson, jaye, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Trans people.
- Indigenous women.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (96 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Gibsons, BC : Nightwood Editions, 2020.
- Summary:
- "it was never going to be okay is a collection of poetry and prose exploring the intimacies of understanding intergenerational trauma, Indigeneity and queerness, while addressing Urban Indigenous Diaspora and breaking down the limitations of sexual understanding as a trans woman. As a way to move from the linear timeline of healing and coming to terms with how trauma does not exist in subsequent happenings, it was never going to be okay tries to breakdown years of silence in their debut collection of poetry: i am five my sisters are saying boy i do not know what the word means but-- i am bruised into knowing it: the blunt b, the hollowness of the o, the blade of y."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- One
- sea glass
- teeth &
- sharp bones (a dialogue)
- boy
- haunting (a poem in six parts)
- 00088614
- her. (i.)
- her. (ii.)
- metal // biting down // i
- Two
- nogojiwanong // peterborough
- the end of a friendship
- inheritance
- //
- this woman//nookum
- urban ndns in the dtes
- it is too late:
- flinch
- loving in the dark
- head &
- heart &
- hands &
- health (a poem in four parts)
- Three
- fever
- norman fucking rockwell! is lana del rey's greatest album
- bedroom hymns
- in a city without seasons…
- beast
- decolonial puy
- godzilla
- r e d
- beautiful monsters in uncanny valley
- perennial love poem
- ζήλια // jealousy
- monstrous bodies
- Four
- the seven sacred ways of healing
- o r a l i t y
- healing//sacrifice//necessity
- w a t e r w a y s
- q u e e r / / r i t i o n
- raven
- about the ones i want to love
- notes
- acknowledgements
- about the author.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780889713833
- 0889713839
- OCLC:
- 1145696637
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