AUTHOR: Ann Tweedy
PUBLISHER: Headmistress Press
LANGUAGE: English
DATE: July 25, 2016
PAGES: 104
ISBN: 9780692613825
AWARDS: Personal Challenge Poetry (Gold) (2018), Lambda Literary Award Nominee, Bisexual non-fiction (2017), Golden Crown Literary Award Nominee, Poetry (2017), Human Relations Indie Book Award, Bisexual Book Awards, Poetry (2016)
The Body’s Alphabet
by Ann Tweedy
“Ann Tweedy’s first book is a brave and honest examination of liminality. In delicate lyrics she confesses to trespass, asking readers to question the boundaries between acts and identity, sexuality and family. The Body’s Alphabet documents the poet’s courage, living openly as a bisexual feminist. Although childhood logic taught her that “home is the structure / you build when nowhere else will have you,” these beautiful poems knit and nest safe haven for a life spent gathering freedom.” —Carol Guess
INCLUSION CRITERIA
Author Ann Tweedy identifies as bisexual
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- UNGUARDED
- eggshells
- half-life
- fracture
- Interior Architecture
- pale pink
- THRESHOLDS
- paean for the body
- appointment
- The Full Pulse of Happiness
- A Bargain
- Small Town Vignettes
- a few remaining trees
- terror
- Rupture
- the pharmacy
- beholden
- BETWEEN PLANETS
- taking stock
- zing
- word games
- Outing
- If
- dirt under the fingernails
- Home Remedies
- mainland fantasy
- life without descartes
- Praise
- kilter
- Porous Landscape
- stain
- near the entrance of Madison Market
- bulkheads
- somersault
- fungus
- DIRT-BLURRED
- fruit
- The Common Grackle
- newts in amplexus
- The Birdbath
- nature essay
- “blue”
- beleagured oases
- loving badly
- rumination
- stages of night
- let me tell you about the snakes
- swimming through history
- late fall, Skagit chum run
- FALLING AND ALIGHTING
- the reader’s innocence
- urban relations
- holiday remembrance
- Rescue
- Acknowledgements
- Thanks
- About the Author
QUOTES
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