"In this diptych of poems, Stacy Szymaszek constructs a multiplicity of selves and desires in language that bends, stimulates, disorients, and satisfies, giving free reign to obsessions over identity, queerness, the broad landscape of corporeality that makes these obsessions possible, and with death—in particular, social death. A Reagan-era childhood looms in the “permission to have a story / denied.” Szymaszek’s “story” is a collectivity of narratives overlooked, rejected, and untold—a series of snapshots and moments, skirting linearity, bubbling beneath the surface." Chapbook; 64 pp, 5.44 x 6 inches. Binding: Hand-bound dos-à-dos binding
A collection of self-portraits with accompanying texts by Trane Devore, Renee Gladman, Lisa Jarnot, Kevin Killian, Anne Tardos, Trace Peterson, Elizabeth Robinson, and David Gatten.