Jennifer Conlon
Taking to Water
Taking to Water
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A debut collection of poems by Jennifer Conlon explores gender and queerness through the natural world of North Carolina, addressing the survival of trans and nonbinary kids in restrictive environments. The poems navigate sexual shame and religious oppression, rejecting oppressive patriarchal figures and finding hope in the natural world. "Taking to Water" was selected as the winner of the 2022 Autumn House Poetry Prize.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 88 pages
Publication date: 16 October 2023
Publisher: Autumn House Press
A debut collection of poems that delve into the complexities of gender and embrace queerness through the enchanting natural world of North Carolina.
Jennifer Conlon's debut poetry collection emerges as a tender imagining and a devastating reckoning, simultaneously exploring the lives of trans and nonbinary children who struggle to thrive in environments that restrict their growth. The speaker of these poems grapples with and envisiones a life beyond the traumatic experiences of growing up as a genderqueer child in a small Southern Bible Belt town. Through retelling and reinterpreting moments of sexual shame and religious oppression, while navigating the impossible expectations of a gender-binary society, Conlon offers readers a profound understanding that queerness and the natural world are inextricably linked.
In their poems, Conlon confronts oppressive patriarchal figures and redirects their gaze toward the natural world that sparks dreams of possibility, transformation, and safety. Wasps protect them, an oak tree contains a new god, and flathead catfish guide them toward a newly imagined body. Throughout the thick North Carolina woods, Conlon embarks on a quest to find a language to celebrate queerness, discovering it in the serene ponds, rolling hillsides, and within themselves.
Taken to Water, Jennifer Conlon's debut collection, was selected as the winner of the 2022 Autumn House Poetry Prize, a testament to its profound impact and significance in the world of poetry.
Weight: 150g
Dimension: 163 x 216 x 7 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781637680766
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