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A startling first collection of confessional poetry examining the slippery relations of desire, class, embodiment and trauma. Emma McKennas writing traverses the bounds and the wounds of a family marked by poverty and intergenerational trauma. The collection asserts the primacy of intimacy and sexuality to subjectivity, as the poems move through the struggle to find identity, love and belonging in an urban queer communitys ever-shifting economy of desire. Striking, brave and at times uncomfortable, this collection captures the ambivalence -- and the hope -- of possibility.

Chenille or Silk

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      Publisher Caitlin Press
      Published 21 June 2019
      ISBN-13 9781987915891
      978-1987915891
      ISBN-10 1987915895
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      Book Synopsis
      A startling first collection of confessional poetry examining the slippery relations of desire, class, embodiment and trauma. Emma McKennas writing traverses the bounds and the wounds of a family marked by poverty and intergenerational trauma. The collection asserts the primacy of intimacy and sexuality to subjectivity, as the poems move through the struggle to find identity, love and belonging in an urban queer communitys ever-shifting economy of desire. Striking, brave and at times uncomfortable, this collection captures the ambivalence -- and the hope -- of possibility.

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