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Candrilli, Kayleb Rae, author.

Water I won't touch / Kayleb Rae Candrilli.

Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2021]

xii, 89 pages ; 22 cm

"Both radically tender and desperate for change, Water I Won't Touch is a life raft and a self-portrait, concerned with the vitality of trans people living in a dangerous and inhospitable landscape. Through the brambles of the Pennsylvania forest to a stretch of the Jersey Shore, in quiet moments and violent memories, Kayleb Rae Candrilli touches the broken earth and examines the whole in its parts. Written during the body's healing from a double mastectomy--in the wake of addiction and family dysfunction--these ambitious poems put new form to what's been lost and gained. Candrilli ultimately imagines a joyful, queer future: a garden to harvest, lasting love, the insistent flamboyance of citrus"-- From page 4 of cover.

Transgender people -- United States -- Poetry.

Transgender poetry.

Autobiographical poetry.

Water I will not touch

Includes bibliographical references

Sand & silt -- One geography of belonging -- On the ways our mouths betray us -- Water I won't touch -- On the abuse of sleep aids -- Some thoughts on luck -- On the benefits of learning by example -- Sestina written as though genesis -- Water I won't touch -- Summering in Wildwood, NJ -- On crescents & waning -- On traveling together -- We remain foolishly hopeful (or, obituary for the topsoil) -- On having forgotten to recycle -- Echo -- My partner wants me to write them a poem about Drew Barrymore -- Valentine, Nebraska: Cherry county -- You've heard this before: the only way out is through -- I challenge my father to an arm-wrestling competition and finally win -- Water we won't touch -- My partner wants me to write them a poem about Sheryl Crow -- Here we are, again together, just like we said we would -- Transgender heroic: all this ridiculous flesh.

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