Things I Didn't Do with This Body - Amanda Gunn

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Résumé :

• Inaugural winner of the Benjamin T. Sankey Award (2014) and a Stegner Fellow (2021)

• Poetry addresses timely insight into the Black experience in America and the history of Black violence and oppression in the United States

• Poetry directly addresses conversations around women’s bodily autonomy and the contemporary war on women’s bodies in a time of the overturn of Roe v. Wade

• Familiar sonnet forms sit alongside experimental stream-of-consciousness prose in a hybrid contribution to contemporary poetry

• Potential audiences: (Black) women interested in body, the fat erotic, sexuality, and/or generational shame; those who have experienced chronic illness and medication, rehabilitation, and therapy; fans of poetry that engages social activism, BIPOC voices, and the LGBTQ+ community

• Acquisition Story: Jorie Graham first recommended Amanda Gunn to Michael Wieger, who then invited Amanda to submit a manuscript