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From award-winning Toronto-based poet Doyali Islam comes a second collection of poems that investigates rupture and resilience.
GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE FINALIST
PAT LOWTHER MEMORIAL AWARD FINALIST
TRILLIUM BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY FINALIST
How does one inhabit a world in which "the moon / & the drone hang in the same sky"? How can one be at home in one's own body in the presence of suspected autoimmune illness, chronic/recurrent pain, and a society that bears down with a particular construct of normal female sexual experience? What might a daughter salvage within a fraught relationship with a cancer-stricken father? Uncannily at ease with both high lyricism and formal innovation and invention, these poems are unafraid to lift up and investigate burdens and ruptures of all…