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OverviewBorn Backwards, Tanya Olson's third collection, reports from inside butch culture in the 1980s American South as it traces how geography, family, experiences, and popular culture shape one queer life. The collection argues for recording these moments before they disappear, not for the purposes of nostalgia but because of their importance to building a future. Like much of Olson's other work, these poems locate the extraordinary within the commonplace- hearing the songs of the Carter Family, reading a child's version of Frankenstein, discovering k.d. lang, and watching soap operas with a grandmother become the building blocks of becoming an individual. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Tanya OlsonPublisher: YesYes Books Imprint: YesYes Books Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.60cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.118kg ISBN: 9781936919994ISBN 10: 1936919990 Pages: 90 Publication Date: 18 June 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviews"""Olson uses language like Gertrude Stein does, building large monuments of sound into humming lattices.""-Dorothea Lasky ""Tanya Olson's magnificent poems carry the weight of giants, tigers, and The People's Acts of Love. Every page is a new cleansing fire."" -CA Conrad" Author InformationTanya Olson is the author of Boyishly, which won the American Book Award, Stay, and her newest collection, Born Backwards, all out from YesYes Books. She is also the recipient of a Discovery/Boston Review prize and an Emerging Writer Fellowship from the Lambda Literary Foundation. Her poems have been included in Best American Poems 2015 and Please Excuse This Poem. Olson has been a featured reader at the Enoch Pratt Reading Series, Outwrite DC, the Stadler Center for Poetry, and the Dodge Poetry Festival. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |