Taking to water /

A tender imagining and devastating reckoning, Jennifer Conlon's debut presents a poetry collection of gender questioning, concerned with the survival of trans and nonbinary kids who live in places that do not allow them to thrive. The speaker of these poems wrestles with and envisions a life be...

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Main Author: Conlon, Jennifer (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh : Autumn House Press, [2023].
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