{"product_id":"skirted-9781944585471","title":"Skirted","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. The poems in SKIRTED glisten with precise and honest lines that chart how their queer speaker measures and crosses water in all its incarnations. Myth and memory intertwine to reveal the simultaneity of chasm and connection. In this dissonance, the discomfort of being a slowly ripping apart and reforming continent, Wade exposes new lyric heights pushed up from the grit and magma of realizing \"impeccable geotropic design.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A life in stasis swallowed by the sea, the self skirted in tulle and willow bark, a heart dropped through a hole in the earth to land in joyful queer companionship: this collection is a gorgeous ocean journey of becoming, landing on the complex shores of identity-daughter, thinker, poet, queer-with agency and agility. Wade's precise poems are gifts, offering insight into how we can glean what we need from the world around us as well as from our own innate knowing.\"-Tamiko Beyer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The reader is immediately aware of being carried and held in strong, capable hands-able to encompass the necessary roughness of this ride-elated along the way by sparkling, multi-sourced diction and wide ranges of reference, by love poems, sex poems, poems of struggle against intractable gender expectation, and poems of hard sorrow at final breaks, at being cast out, really, once and for all, 'You are not sure if you are missed.' On another softer shore: reeled in.\"-Stephanie Strickland\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWade, Julie Marie:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Julie Marie Wade's collections include SKIRTED (The Word Works, 2021), \u003cem\u003eWishbone: A Memoir in Fractures, Small Fires: Essays, Postage Due: Poems \u0026amp; Prose Poems, \u003c\/em\u003e WHEN I WAS STRAIGHT (A Midsummer Night's Press, 2018), \u003cem\u003eSIX, \u003c\/em\u003e SAME-SEXY MARRIAGE (A Midsummers Night's Press, 2018), CATECHISM: A LOVE STORY (Noctuary Press, 2016), and \u003cem\u003eJust an Ordinary Woman Breathing.\u003c\/em\u003e With Denise Duhamel, she wrote \u003cem\u003eThe Unrhymables: Collaborations in Prose, \u003c\/em\u003e and with Brenda Miller, \u003cem\u003eTelephone: Essays in Two Voices.\u003c\/em\u003e A winner of the Marie Alexander Poetry Series and the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir, she teaches in the creative writing program at Florida International University and reviews regularly for\u003cem\u003e Lambda Literary Review\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Rumpus.\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"Word Works","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50381080297746,"sku":"9781944585471","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a15b6c94-dc32-448f-a128-4ad645e2fb7b.jpg?v=1728693815","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/skirted-9781944585471","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}