Emotion Industry

<p>Tracy Dimond's debut collection EMOTION INDUSTRY leverages pop culture obsession communication theory and humor to interrogate the absurdity of controlling feminine rage while living with an undiagnosed chronic illness.</p><p><br></p><p>Tracy Dimond's poems come from the place where 'it girl' and riot grrrl meet. They are smart introspective funny and unsettling all at once-both wry observations and wails into the mic from a brilliant feminist voice that takes poetry pop culture and affect as seriously as they deserve to be taken. - Dr. Tonee Mae Moll author of You Cannot Save Here and Out of Step: A Memoir winner of a Lambda Literary Award and the Non/Fiction Collection Prize</p><p><br></p><p>It's the sarcastic micro-feminisms and anti-capitalist jabs for me. While reading Emotion Industry I kind of feel like life is work. Except I'm with my favorite co-worker who is edging me to flee - to see beyond the billboards find a wildflower to sponsor me the sun of my expanse. There is a level of calm captured in the absolute of suffering where a recovering animal discovers its cage. I imagine that world would be as precise as the voice in this one. Somehow Tracy captures the immeasurable heartbreak in apathy and lands it in our body. - Amanda McCormick Creator of THE HOUSE Handcrafted</p><p><br></p><p>Tracy Dimond takes the reader on a journey through living with undiagnosed illness while trying to survive the world in a woman's body-so bent over from this leaning in. She hints at the discomfort she feels in her own skin: thinking about the body- / the reign of terror over every moment captured in / store mirrors but reminds us the privilege of / a bag of muscles and bones and fat / with a voice box. Emotion Industry is filled with sharp images and a dry wit that sticks with the reader. Sagely Dimond tells us Aging is deciding which system to buy into / but I'm still searching for shooting stars. This collection is a shooting star and the one I'm buying into. - CourtneyLeBlanc author of Her Whole Bright Life winner of the Jack McCarthyBook Prize</p>