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The Affirmations

The Affirmations

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This is a story, writes Luke Hathaway, of transformation. It is a death. It is a birth. / Birth, of course, is very terrible: what can survive it? His fourth collection, and first since Years, Months, and Days, a New York Times Best Poetry Book of 2018, The Affirmations is a work of trans poetics in the most radical sense. Begun in motherhood, in an experience of birth as an experience of affirmation, and continued through... Read More

This is a story, writes Luke Hathaway, of transformation. It is a death. It is a birth. / Birth, of course, is very terrible: what can survive it? His fourth collection, and first since Years, Months, and Days, a New York Times Best Poetry Book of 2018, The Affirmations is a work of trans poetics in the most radical sense. Begun in motherhood, in an experience of birth as an experience of affirmation, and continued through Hathaway’s transition, The Affirmations is a rerelationing with self and other, elder and myth. It’s a book about what happened when Hathaway fell in love—and about what happened when love shot the messenger.

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Page length: 120 Publication Date: 2022-04-05 Book themes: POETRY / LGBTQ+ Publisher: Biblioasis ISBN: 9781771964852 Language: English

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<p><em>This is a story</em>, writes Luke Hathaway, <em>of transformation. It is a death. It is a birth</em>. /<em> Birth, of course, is very terrible: what can survive it? </em>His fourth collection, and first since <em>Years, Months, and Days</em>, a <em>New York Times</em> Best Poetry Book of 2018, <em>The Affirmations</em> is a work of trans poetics in the most radical sense. Begun in motherhood, in an experience of birth as an experience of affirmation, and continued through Hathaway’s transition, <em>The Affirmations</em> is a rerelationing with self and other, elder and myth. It’s a book about what happened when Hathaway fell in love—and about what happened when love shot the messenger.</p>
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Dimensions 8.5 × 1.00 in