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The poems in Stigmata are ruinous encounters between traumatic and historical memory. They transfigure the cult of the wound into a mystic frenzy of sex, grief, and noise. Drawing inspiration from a broad archive of texts and practices apophatic theology, body horror, gardening, queer theory, classic films, poststructuralism, and bad sex Stigmata forms a counterhistory of the wound, an experiment in fractured memoir and misplaced anatomy that weaponizes the confessional mode, wrenching it from self-narration to approach a violence that breaks language and bodies apart. Stigmata fuses the ""high"" to the ""low"" the ""sacred"" of theory and theology to the ""profane"" of leaking and lust. The result is a treacherous adventure through the cross-currents of sexual deviancy and religion, helped along by a bitter sense of humour, to the limits of faith and body.

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Scott Jackshaw is a poet, scholar, and editor from Edmonton, Alberta. Their poetry and prose have appeared in journals including The Capilano Review, CV2, and Jacket2. They hold a PhD in English from Brown University.

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