"A brave, searing collection. Out of a difficult year of compulsory service at a slaughterhouse, Sussens has forged a plain-spoken, lyrical poetic voice able to 'gut truth, / exhume the body of memory.' Whether chronicling the forging of a queer sexual identity, the loss of innocence or its renewal through requited love and poetry itself, these unflinching poems refuse to be forgotten. In response to the inevitable risk of loving, she writes: 'Sometimes I wish / I never knew the word merge ...' All the more poignant, then, that the collection should bear witness to precisely such points of fraught, perilous contact between self and world. A remarkable body of work that will sustain many re-readings."--Dust jacket flap.
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