How to Identify Yourself with a Wound

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As KB navigates burning issues of love identity race and enforced gender bearing witness to how intimacy can be a battleground a declared truce or an Eden How to Identify Yourself with a Wound is never less than compelling and absorbing: 'Let me tell you the story of a tenderness the world refused to call / beautiful but it lives.' The powerful lines the no-holds-barred voice and risk-taking candor of these dynamic debut poems make the reader hungry for a whole volume. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(49 49 49 1)> </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> The poems in </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>How to Identify Yourself with a Wound</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> pull no punches. </span><u style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>R</u><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>aw honesty paired with concise language </span><span style=color: rgba(38 38 38 1)>inhabit</span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and fully </span><span style=color: rgba(38 38 38 1)>embody</span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> a life shaped by the intersection of race class sexuality and gender. This is my favorite kind of poetry necessary and urgent revealing and saving and healing and re-creating both poet and reader.  -</span></p>