The Body You're In
Published on 26. September 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
32 pages
978-1-913268-01-5 (ISBN)
Description
Phoebe Wagner’s poetry is a kind of undressing. Offering up the social and sexual uncertainties of our time, she forges these into a bolder understanding of contemporary angst. Language heady as Plath melts into a precise, Carson-like wit. Wagner’s voice is a reflexive one, referencing therapists, care plans, bingo tickets, pick-up lines, familial myths: ‘Abuela knew I was the devil when I came out like that. / That all of Spain had bled out of me.’ Formally inventive, highly visual, these poems ripple through the mind, at once cleansing and intoxicating.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Weight
55 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-913268-01-5 (9781913268015)
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Phoebe Wagner's debut novel A Shot of Gin is forthcoming from Parliament House Press (2023). She is the editor of three solarpunk anthologies, including Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk & Eco-Speculation. She blogs about speculative literature at the Hugo-winning Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together. Wagner currently pursues a PhD, studying ecocriticism and speculative fiction at University of Nevada, Reno. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Lycoming College in Pennsylvania. Follow her at phoebe-wagner.com or on Twitter: @pheebs_w.