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Intimacies, Received signals agency, as trauma isheld to the light and finally named. In this astonishing second collection by Taneum Bambrick,violence hides in the glint of the carving knife-every intimacy a shadow, everymemory a maze to navigate. Set primarily in rural Southern Spain, Intimacies,Received moves through streets and fields, households and years, followinga survivor of sexual assault as she painstakingly reassembles a narrative ofself. A brilliant storyteller, Bambrick builds through palimpsest-layeringvivid imagery to recall embodiment and dissociation, illness and isolation,queer female sexuality amidst acts of misogyny-utilizing varied forms includingekphrasis, persona, and a lyric essay. Ultimately, Intimacies, Receivedsignals agency, as trauma is held to the light and finally named.

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[Bambrick is] entirely committed to illuminating the intricacy of human nature. -The Rumpus Vantage is a work of art which also functions as a call, as if from under the ground, a cry from water and air. -Sharon Olds, from the introduction Read this book for its quotidian beauty. -RHINO Vantage is stunning, a true feat of language. -The Adroit Journal Within a puzzle of forms...it's the pitch and precision of detail in Bambrick's prose poems that glean tenderness. -High Country News [Bambrick relies] on the belief that love can exist, intensely and profoundly, within a process of damage and decay. -Poetry Northwest Taneum Bambrick sees, really sees, our America: blood on a baseball hat, purposeless dams, a wooden corn nut latched to a silver chain. Her clarity constantly surprises...It's such a rigorous vision, one that acknowledges even the violence of space, the violence of sounds, the violence that 'commodities its own impact.' -Kaveh Akbar

[Bambrick is] entirely committed to illuminating the intricacy of human nature. -The Rumpus Vantage is a work of art which also functions as a call, as if from under the ground, a cry from water and air. -Sharon Olds, from the introduction Read this book for its quotidian beauty. -RHINO Vantage is stunning, a true feat of language. -The Adroit Journal Within a puzzle of forms...it's the pitch and precision of detail in Bambrick's prose poems that glean tenderness. -High Country News [Bambrick relies] on the belief that love can exist, intensely and profoundly, within a process of damage and decay. -Poetry Northwest Taneum Bambrick sees, really sees, our America: blood on a baseball hat, purposeless dams, a wooden corn nut latched to a silver chain. Her clarity constantly surprises...It's such a rigorous vision, one that acknowledges even the violence of space, the violence of sounds, the violence that 'commodities its own impact.' -Kaveh Akbar

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Taneum Bambrick is the author of Intimacies, Received(Copper Canyon Press, 2022) and Vantage, which was selected by Sharon Olds forthe APR / Honickman First Book Award (American Poetry Review, 2019). Herchapbook, Reservoir, was selected by Ocean Vuong for the 2017 Yemassee ChapbookPrize. She is the winner of an Academy of American Poets University Prize, anEnvironmental Writing Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Arts Center, and the2018 BOOTH Nonfiction Contest. She was a 2020 Stegner Fellow at StanfordUniversity, and has received scholarships from the Sewanee Writers' Conference and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. She is the Reviews Editor at PleiadesMagazine and a Dornsife Fellow in Creative Writing and Literature in the PhDprogram at USC.

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