Description
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 break down years of silence in simpson's 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
Author: Jaye Simpson
Publisher: Nightwood Editions
Published: 04/20/2021
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.40w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9780889713826
ISBN10: 0889713820
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | Native American
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Death, Grief, Loss
- Poetry | LGBTQ+