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A Body More Tolerable
A Body More Tolerable | jaye simpson
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Ferocious and vulnerable poems about redefining acts of creation, destruction, deconstruction, and recreation, from a singular Indigiqueer point of view a body more tolerable is a collection of powerful and haunting poems full of mythos, fairy tales, allusion, and magic. Divided into three parts, the book takes an intimate exploration of Indigenous grief, trans identity, and frustrated desires in ways that reject perception. Author jaye simpson conjures up dazzling multiverses throughout their mythic journey as they dance and run wild in their own manifestation of girlhood. In these visceral poems, teeth gleam, graze skin, or sink into flesh, becoming bloodied and exposing the animalistic hunger that lies within. Pulsating with yearning and possibility, a body more tolerable is a book that resists typical notions of physicality and sex to dream of a world more divine.
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jaye‘s second poetry collection delivers some really good stuff but a few of them missed the mark for me. Maybe it‘s cause I‘m reading on the subway and it‘s hard to take it all in while reading on a phone. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I do think it‘s important to read more queer, indigenous voices and jaye‘s description of their relationship with their body as a 2 spirit indigiqueer person is really moving.

#indigenous
#lgbtqia2025
#transrightsreadathon

Kenyazero Good find! I‘ll have to pick this one up. 5d
Kitta @Kenyazero it was available on Libby through my local library! 5d
Kenyazero @Kitta looks like my library doesn‘t have it physically or digitally, but I just placed a hold on another book by this author and an indigiqueer anthology their work appears in called Love After The End: An Anthology of Two-spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction 5d
Kitta @Kenyazero I haven‘t read that one! But it sounds good. 5d
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« I can see her in the falling leaves » hits so hard.

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New poetry by jaye simpson!

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