More Than Organs

A love letter to Brown, Queer, and Trans futures, Kay Ulanday Barrett's More Than Organs questions "whatever wholeness means" for bodies always in transit, for the safeties and dangers they silo. These poems remix people of color as earthbenders, replay "the choreography of loss" after the 2015 Pulse shooting, and till joy from the cosmic sweetness of a family's culinary history. Barrett works "to build / a shelter // of / everyone / they] meet," from aunties to the legendary Princess Urduja to their favorite air sign. More Than Organs tattoos grief across the knuckles of its left hand and love across the knuckles of its right, leaving the reader physically changed by the intensity of experience, longing, strength, desire, and the need, above all else, to survive.

Author: Kay Ulanday Barrett
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Sibling Rivalry Press, LLC
Published: 03/12/2020
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d
ISBN: 9781943977741


Award: Stonewall Book Award - Honor Book