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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Taking to water
  name:
    name part: Conlon, Jennifer
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: pau
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 79 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: 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 beyond their traumatic childhood as a genderqueer child in a small Southern Bible Belt town. Through retelling and reinterpreting moments of sexual shame and religious oppression, while navigating impossible expectations from a gender-binary society, Conlon shows readers that queerness and the natural world are inseparable. In their poems, Conlon comes to reject oppressive patriarchal figures, turning their gaze toward the natural world that catalyzes dreams of possibility, transformation and safety wasps protect them, an oak tree contains a new god and flathead catfish guide them to a newly imagined body. Through thick North Carolina woods, Conlon searches for a language to celebrate queerness, finding it in ponds, hillsides and within themselves.
  note: Jennifer Conlon.
  subject:
    topic: Gender-nonconforming people
    topic: Identity
    genre: Poetry
  classification: PS3603.O5416 T35 2023
  classification: 811/.6
  identifier: 9781637680766
  identifier: 1637680767
  identifier: 9781637680773
  identifier: 2023016852
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 230609
    record change date: 20231211175403.4
    record identifier: in00004759421