stemmy things

"This flirty collection traces unruly paths of becoming; its sprawling poems build towards an expansive world celebrating fluidity while casting a critical lens on state power, ecological precarity, and the yearning for queer utopia on stolen land. Referencing lineages of poets, musicians, workers and neighbors, as well as conversations between lovers and friends, stemmy things is a vision unraveling, breaking open to make space for glimmering while reckoning with the body's multiple contexts. Layered, lush, and lavish, these poems offer up tangling, blossoming desire." -- Publisher's website.

About the author

imogen xtian smith is a poet & performer. They live & work on Lenape lands / NYC.

Summary

FINALIST for the 2023 Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature

A kaleidoscopic debut collection of poems performing queer excess and lyric ecstasy. 
This flirty collection traces unruly paths of becoming; its sprawling poems build towards an expansive world celebrating fluidity while casting a critical lens on state power, ecological precarity, and the yearning for queer utopia on stolen land. Referencing lineages of poets, musicians, workers and neighbors, as well as conversations between lovers and friends, stemmy things is a vision unraveling, breaking open to make space for glimmering while reckoning with the body’s multiple contexts. Layered, lush, and lavish, these poems offer up tangling, blossoming desire.

Foreword

Advance Reader Copies
Outreach to LGBTQ+ media
Social Media Campaign
Virtual launch

Product details

• Authors: imogen xtian Smith, smith imogen xtian
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.10.2022
• EAN: 9781643621500
• ISBN: 978-1-64362-150-0
• No. of pages: 144
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Relating to LGBTQ+ people, POETRY / LGBTQ+, Relating to Trans / Transgender people or gender minorities, Modern and contemporary poetry / poems