Otherly. Poems - Rebecca Reynolds

2023 Winner of the 42 Miles Press Poetry Award
Through loneliness, through warfare, both past and present, through our experience with COVID-19, the NRA, a history of implicit racism, marriage and queer and childless domesticity, these poems enact the ways in which we may or may not inhabit a unified self provided by our linguistic and cultural modes of explanation or normalization, no matter how domestic and suddenly mainstream our lives have become—though still occurring within bell hooks's description of a "white-supremacist, capitalist, patriarchy." Poetry chronicles the quirks in perception and experience, and this book occurs against this backdrop of fragments and history—how life and poetry so often announce themselves.