before & after our bodies by Phil Saintdenissanchez

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before & after our bodies by Phil SaintdenissanchezPhil SaintDenisSanchezs debut collection before & after our bodies tackles complex familial history and struggles, emerging in the rich backdrop of New Orleans, Louisiana. Through multilayered language and immersive imagery, SaintDenisSanchez interweaves political and social issuesfrom the lasting impacts of colonialism to environmental disasterwith intensely personal narratives of love, learning, and loss. The long, lyrical form and enrapturing

These poems ask urgent questions: What does it mean to be a mixed-race survivor of generational traumas in a world that often insists on binaries and singular narratives

–Indigo Moor

shattered and scattered everywhere

always lacking

rooted in unity and wholeness

While a creator’s ethnicity does not solely define them

Cathy Linh Che’s collection Split accomplishes this nearly impossible challenge with uncommon grace and power

she’s either writing or shouting into the void about film

In this unflinching and lyrical book

The chapbook focuses primarily on a break-up and its aftermath as the speaker reckons with the emotional abuse and infidelity that she experienced

it is incomplete and imperfect--I do not always identify with the speakers of these poems

“This is a personal book about American poetry

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